120+ Behavior Quotes to Make You Understand More About Human

Good Behavior Quotes

These behavior quotes below will tell you more about good behavior.

• "The fact is that people are good, give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior." - Abraham Maslow

• "Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity." - Henry S. Haskins

• "Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!" - Brigham Young

• "Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution." - Randall Terry

• "Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior." - Mary McCarthy

• "The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme." - John Buford

• "We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon." - Douglas Horton

• "Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior." - Richard Branson

• "Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary." - Buck Brannaman

• "Good behavior wins even an enemy." - Chanakya

• "Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior." - Martha C. Nussbaum

• "If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that I behaved so well?" - Henry David Thoreau

• "Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government." - Alexander Hamilton

• "Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior." - Julian Assange

• "Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal." - Millicent Fenwick

• "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." - Warren Buffett

• "The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." - Joseph Story

• "Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior." - Warren Buffett

• "And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?" - Marquis de Sade

• "One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior." - Walter Scott

• "Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout." - Andy Rooney

• "Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband." - Laura Bush

• "In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior." - Jesse Ventura

• "You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity." - L. Ron Hubbard

• "Can you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked. I gave him what I hoped was a seductive smile as I found my seat. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good." - Richelle Mead

• “Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned." - Auliq Ice

Positive Behavior Quotes

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These are some behavior quotes that bring positive energy to you.

• "Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

• "Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us." - Earl Nightingale

• "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill

• "The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

• "Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes." - Emily Dickinson

• "Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." - Leonard Cohen

• "Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

• "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one." - Hans Selye

• "Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

• "People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so." - Sharon Stone

• "Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude." - Andy Stanley

• "If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on." - Gabrielle Bernstein

• "Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

• "The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion." - Nadia Boulanger

• "Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy." - Dan Millman

• "I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time." - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

• "We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions." - Stephen Covey

• "I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'" - Margo Kaufman

• "Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior." - Ron Williams

Bad Behavior Quotes

As the opposite of good behavior, here are some bad behavior quotes you should read.

• "Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity." - Debra Winger

• "I just get grumpy with bad behaviour." - Anton du Beke

• "Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice." - Alain de Botton

• "If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously." - Margot Robbie

• "I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person." - Daniel Radcliffe

• "Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it." - Gore Vidal“All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation." - Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

• “An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them, it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense." - Gary Hopkins

• “When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it." - Gary Hopkins

• “The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel." - L. Tobin

• “I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter." - Colin Quinn

• “Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again!" - Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

• “The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure." - Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

• “Most bad behavior is about that person’s core fears about themselves; it is rarely about you." - Kimberly Giles

• “To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors." - Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

• “Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn't fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?" - Shannon L. Alder

• “We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it’s hardly foolproof. ‘Good people’ are capable of bad behavior. ‘Bad people’ are capable of good behavior." - Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

• “We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life." - Auliq Ice

• “Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of positive virtues." - Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

• “She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to." - Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

• “We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior." - Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

• “Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?" - Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

• “There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don’t change the world!" - Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

• “Unethical behavior significantly increases the cost of doing business." - Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

• “Maybe we are entering a new era in which bullying and the intimidation of other people are at last consigned to their rightful place alongside racism, hatemongering, drunk driving, littering, spitting in public, and passing gas at parties." - Frank E. Peretti

Childish Behavior Quotes

Read some of these behavior quotes about childishness.

• “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

• “When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right." - C. JoyBell C.

• “To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals." - Michael Bassey Johnson

• “You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking." - John MacArthur

• “There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man." - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

• “Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwillingness to learn one’s lesson. It is the decision to speak and live the truth, the beautiful truth of who we are and what we’re capable of, against all odds and in the face of all opposition." - Vironika Tugaleva

• “When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do." - Criss Jami, Killosophy

• “When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be." - Rumer Godden, The Greengage Summer

• “Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know a childish person, is to know a very immature person. To know childlikeness is to know original wisdom; to know childishness is to know original error. And there are many children more mature than adults, many adults less mature than children." - C. JoyBell C.

• “There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we’re being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we’re only being childish." - Seth Godin

• "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C. S. Lewis

• "If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child." - Frederick Buechner

• "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw

• "I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things." - Brian Baumgartner

• "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

• "I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed." - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

• "Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence." - C. S. Lewis

• "I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things." - Rita Dove

• "I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work." - Leo Buscaglia

• "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

• "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!" - Terry Pratchett

• "I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it." - Lauren Faust

• "When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan." - P. J. O'Rourke

• "Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves." - Mara Wilson

• "A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do." - Gene Wilder

• "Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away." - Jean Ingelow

• "Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves." - C. S. Lewis

• "Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up." - C. S. Lewis

• "When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific." - Philip K. Dick

• "Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever." - Glenn Gould

In total, there are more than 120 behavior quotes inside this article you can read. All these quotes are important to make you more understand that every person is unique because we have a different behavior that defines who we really are.