Best habit & behavior Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.”

Knows World Way Character Habit Behavior Patterns Thyself Responding Habitual Know Thyself

Author:Thomas Lickona

“For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.”

Long Habit Lovers Behavior Long Time Profession

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.”

People Ifs Opportunity Attitude Style Habit Behavior Patterns Casual Orientation Behavior Patterns

Author:William Julius Wilson

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.”

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

Way Wells Facts Form Choices Habit Behavior Anger Angry Reactions Insane Insanity Behave Frustration Severe

Author:Wayne Dyer

“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.”

“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.”

Source: Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

“The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.”

Should Stuff Teacher Habit Behavior Concern Prime Pupils

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.”

Body Certain Understanding Habit Behavior Your Body Urgency Sense Of Urgency Good Behavior

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.”

Wells Changed Habit Behavior

Book:Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.”

Thinking Hard Home Habit Behavior Harder Back Home

Author:Joseph Dougherty

“On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from generation to generation that we don't want. We could also have picked up loose energies or entities from places we visit or live, and this could be very confusing. It could reinforce or even produce addictions and cravings that don't really belong to us.”

Want Energy Levels Generations Produce Habit Behavior Addiction Patterns Confusion Entity Psychics Confusing Craving

Author:Robert Moss

“And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.”

Long Turns Choices Habit Behavior Productive Making Choices

Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.”

Attitude Leader Habit Behavior Organization Mirrors Mindset Pace

Author:Darren Hardy

“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.”

Ifs Heart Self Hate Differences Emotional Habit Behavior Bother Just One Compass Drains Self Defeating Behavior

Author:Doc Childre

“Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.”

“So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.”

Action School Situation Security Students Habit Drug Letting Go Behavior Response Stuck Accountability Stillness Pharmaceutical

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.”

People Different Culture Winning Common Habit Behavior Losing

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.”

People Real Difficult Attitude Habit Behavior Program Take Time Norm It Takes Time

Author:Richard P. Rumelt

“Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility.”

People Helping Habit Behavior Expectations Well Known Credibility

Author:Edward Hallowell

“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.”

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

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