Best behavior & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.”

People Self Self Esteem Behavior Lows Roots Angry Forgiving Defense Esteem Stubborn Low Self Esteem Flare Flare Up

Book:Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability

Source: Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability

“At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?”

Self Poor Behavior Judgment Defense Justification Self Defense Bad Behavior

Author:Dan Gelber

“Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.”

Self Belief Produce Behavior Judgment Expectations Consequence Outcomes Efficacy Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.”

Self Results Behavior Argument Self Defeating Behavior

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.”

War Self Behavior Patterns Defined Possessed Living Things Dynamism

Book:Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

“By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.”

Believe Book Self Fall Reading Responsibility Teach Talent Students Taught Reader Behavior Selling Lifelong Books And Reading

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

“Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.”

Self Morality Behavior Self Respect Respecting Others

Author:Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

“Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradictory, illogical, deep-rooted, and scarcely known even to our most secret selves. We are getting better at handling money, but what it means to us, how we use it to express ourselves, and how it can help us become all that we are meant to be remain murky issues.”

Mean Self Sometimes Helping Use Feelings Money Secret Known Issues Mystery Behavior Get Better Meant To Be Rooted Contradictory Illogical Puzzling Erratic

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.”

People Self Behavior Perception Preserves Justify Self Perception

Author:Christopher Golden

“Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.”

Self Values Interest Behavior Driven Assumption Economist Preference Self Interest

Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

Way Has Beens Self Play Use Might Night Asks Games Given Process Powerful Behavior Negative Could Have Been Neurotic Old Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Humans Self Loses Knowledge Worst Conditions Behavior Self Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”

Book Self Character Order Winning Duty Battle Behavior Provinces Tranquillity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.”

Self Christ Situation Ego Behavior Flexible Inappropriate Rigidity

Author:John Cleese

“What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”

Made Stills Self Fear Behavior Bounds

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.”

Needs Kind Children Self Facts Helping Able School Turns Social Waiting Ability Knowing Teacher Emotional Behavior Expected Impulse Fund Assured Reins Getting Along Precocious

Author:Daniel Goleman

“For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.”

Feels Persons Self Action Behavior Responsible

Author:Stanley Milgram

“A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...”

“The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.”

Life Self Achieve Behavior Shadow Profound Rewards Shadow Work

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“God's love is so perfect that He lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws can we become perfect, as He is. For this reason, God's anger and His wrath are not a contradiction of His love but an evidence of His love. Every parent knows that you can love a child totally and completely while still being creatively angry and disappointed at that child's self-defeating behavior.”

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency”

Self Problem Produce Behavior Standards Aspect Reactions Adopted Personal Experiences Dissatisfaction Dysfunction Self Efficacy Despondency Behavior Problems

Author:Albert Bandura

“It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior”

Self Speak Social Term Behavior Efficacy Self Efficacy Informative Social Behavior

Author:Albert Bandura

“Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills”

Self Shows Effects Skills Behavior Achievement Analysis Cognitive Efficacy Self Efficacy Regression

Author:Albert Bandura

“In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects”

Different Self Belief Given Effects Produce Behavior Patterns Psychological Instance Outcomes Considering Efficacy Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities”

Self Deals Situation Circumstances Easier Behavior Performances Ill Arise Defined Appropriate Yield Judged Assessment Actuality Efficacy Disparity Defective Self Efficacy Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”

Thinking Persons Self Reality Easy Sin Attitude Judging Ought Behavior Weakness Critical Focused Righteous Shortcomings Blinded Self Righteous Easy To Judge

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.”

“The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.”

“Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.”

Persons Self Reason Culture Novel Essentials Behavior Projects Obvious Criminals Crucial Linked Reinvention Tropes

Author:Luc Sante

“When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.”

World Self Behavior Plant Seeds Self Respect

Book:Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace

Source: Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace

“Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.”

Humans Important Self Behavior Models Economics Fundamentals Rational Human Behavior

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.”

“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.”

Humans Ideas Self Matter Feelings Easy Animal Mistake Fit Behavior Perception Conscious No Idea Appropriate Being Human Criteria Self Conscious Inappropriate Lizards Revulsion

Author:Douglas Adams

“Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.”

People Trying Different Self Sometimes Moments Law Next Circumstances Behavior Multiple Economist Predictability

Author:David Brooks

“More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.”

Self Problem Belief Attitude Self Love Behavior Strategy Guilt Errors Interfere Relaxation Correcting Facilitate Bad Behavior Behavior Change

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.”

Self Enough Play Able Found Behavior Misery Release Enjoyed Destructive Dylan Self Destructive

Author:Tom Hollander

“The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.”

Self Left Black White Attitude Vision Worst Behavior Bottom Excuse Envy Destructive Resentment Paranoid Tolls Self Destructive Black Or White Counterproductive

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.”

“To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.”

Self Decision Behavior Our Thoughts

Author:Bill Crawford

“To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.”

Self Use Easy Pay Attention Design Behavior Claims Pay Attention Users Speculation Unreliable Interfaces

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.”

Thinking Long Self Our Lives Goes On Please Safe Behavior Messages Hundred Regard Contact

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.”

Feels Wells Ideas Self Personality Circumstances Behavior Built Foundation Patterns Behave Vibrations Premises Present Time Deviate

Author:Maxwell Maltz

“Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.”

Littles Has Beens Self Guy Poor Self Esteem Behavior Essence Victim Esteem Wounded Insecure Bully Daylight Rationalize Wailing

Author:Ann Coulter

“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”

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