56 Good Behavior Quotes For Everyone

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Our behavior towards others determines the kind of person we are. Also, from your behavior, it will be known that how other people will treat us. It also helps in building our character. If you need some motivation about behavior, then in this post we are sharing some quotes about behavior.

These behavior quotes can help students, kids, adults, and other persons to find motivation.

Good Behavior Quotes For Kids And Students

1. “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ” ― Plato

3. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” ― Warren Buffett

4. “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” ― Katherine Hepburn

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5. “Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.” ― Debra Winger

6. “Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” ― Emily Dickinson

7. “The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.” ― Maxwell Maltz

8. “People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.” ― Robert Greene

9. “As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.” ― Peter Gabriel

10. “All cruelty springs from weakness.” ― Seneca

Inspirational Quotes About Behavior

11. “Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.” ― Heraclitus

12. “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” ― Victor Frankl

13. “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” ― Beatrix Potter

14. “Chakras are not the nerve centers of the body but subtler than that. Chakras are mostly behave like quantum quasi particles – they control the collective behavior of the body, mind and soul at various levels.” ― Amit Ray

15. “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell

16. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ― Jane Austen

17. “Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.” ― Terence McKenna

18. “Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.” ― Kimberly Giles

19. “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.” ― Aldo Leopold

20. “Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick.” ― Steven Pinker

21. “Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it’s cage; it will be hard to capture it again!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

22. “Good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive.” ― Tom Rachman

23. “Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.” ― Donna Barr

24. “Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.” ― Khaled Hosseini

25. “It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.” ― Gabor Mate

26. “Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.” ― Steve Maraboli

27. “Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.” ― Auliq Ice

28. “Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.” ― John Dos Passos

29. “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

30. “My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I’m quite prone to such bouts of deplorability–take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.” ― Brandon Sanderson

31. “Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” ― Bertrand Russell

32. “Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.” ― Alfred Adler

33. “Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.” ― Carol Tavris

34. “One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.” ― Iyanla Vanzant

35. “Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.” ― Stephen R. Covey

36. “Our thoughts shape how we behave.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

37. “Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.” ― Cesare Pavese

38. “Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.” ― Stephen King

39. “Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.” ― Miya Yamanouchi

40. “Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.” ― Myles Munroe

41. “Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.” ― Jacqueline Winspear

42. “Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.” ― Matt Ridley

43. “The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behaviors affect the rights and well being of others.” ― Sharon Anthony Bower

44. “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.” ― Sigmund Freud

45. “The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.” ― M. Scott Peck

46. “The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.” ― Russell Brand

47. “The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.” ― Courtney Summers

48. “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” ― Malcolm Gladwell

49. “To change behavior, products must ensure the user feels in control. People must want to use the service, not feel they have to.” ― Nir Eyal

50. “To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.” ― Masaru Emoto

51. “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

52. “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

53. “We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies” ― Bryant McGill

54. “We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.” ― Henry Miller

55. “We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don’t always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn’t always reflect our beliefs. … We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.” ― Brandon Mull

56. “We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

57. “Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

58. “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.” ― Brené Brown

59. “You can accomplish anything with students if you set high expectations for behavior and performance by which you yourself abide.” ― Harry K. Wong

60. “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” ― Roy T. Bennett

61. “You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.” ― Brené Brown

Source: All Quotes are collected from goodreads.com & brainyquotes.com. The image source is freepik.com.