Behaviors Quotes

“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, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing
in the face of disaster.

Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“While fear is often associated with safety and caution, they are not the same.”
― Asa Don Brown

“We are not designed to carry around blame or shame.”
― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live

“Every time you choose to perform a bad habit, it's a vote for that identity. The good news is that you don't need to be perfect. In any election, there are going to be votes for both sides. You don't need a unanimous vote to win an election; you just need a majority. It doesn't matter if you cast a few votes for a bad behavior or an unproductive habit. Your goal is simply to win the majority of the time.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“President Trump’s irrational and erratic behaviors regarding COVID-19 are expected to kill many Americans.”
― Steven Magee

“George Floyd’s spirit televised the criminal behaviors of the police to the world.”
― Steven Magee

“..so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

“Do you seek to know the truth? Do not listen to the words that come from the mouths of others, but rather pay attention to repeated behaviors and cycles for in those repetitious actions patterns are shown and they will tell the truth lips won't reveal. Action is always key when considering the character and what is honesty.”
― Sai Marie Johnson

“It’s no coincidence that this model is called Thoughtfully Fit. The goal is to be more thoughtful—to do more thinking—about your actions, reactions, and interactions. Thoughtfully Fit asks you to override some of your default thoughts and behaviors.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Another perk of Thoughtfully Fit is that you don’t have to go to a gym or hire a trainer to get started. As you already know, life will hand you plenty of opportunities to practice! Whether it’s a disgruntled customer service worker, a challenging colleague, or a saucy teenager, every day we encounter opportunities to become more aware of our thoughts and behaviors.
My challenge to you is to embrace this training ground. Find opportunities to engage your core, notice your thoughts, and make different choices. Be brave enough to override your defaults, quiet your trash talk, and challenge the stories you’re telling yourself.
If you practice being Thoughtfully Fit, you’ll be prepared for whatever problems life throws your way. And while life won’t get easier—you’ll still have frustrating neighbors, annoying colleagues, bad news, and unwelcome adversity—it will feel easier because you prepared and trained.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Being thoughtful can be both an internal practice and an external one. Internally, being thoughtful includes behaviors like careful consideration, thinking before speaking, and weighing your options. Externally, being thoughtful means you think about others, and their wants and needs, when acting. It’s this care and consideration that can show up in your daily life and your everyday behavior when you are Thoughtfully Fit.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Advertisers have known for decades what researchers are verifying in numerous studies: Images contain information and energy that profoundly affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Images determine your future.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Letting go of judgment and accepting others just as they are is difficult. However, it’s one of the most powerful Thoughtfully Fit practices. Flexibility teaches us the value of acceptance—full and unconditional acceptance of others. Even, or maybe especially, when you don’t agree with their choices or behaviors. It’s much easier to accept others when we agree with them 100 percent.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Let’s face it: we judge. We all do. It’s part of our humanity. We might never say anything aloud, but we judge, or at the least, we wish others would be different or act differently. Admit it: when you’re at the grocery store, are you secretly looking at someone else’s cart and thinking, Ooh, don’t you know diet soda will kill you? Gosh, that’s loaded with carbs.
When you experience or observe behavior you don’t like, Pause and Think by asking yourself: Is this in my control? Is this any of my business?
When it’s not your business and/or not in your control, you need to Act by practicing Flexibility.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“The worst of our behaviors will always sabotage the best of our dreams.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, said, "Food really connects people. Food is about bringing something into the body. And to eat the same food suggests that we are both willing to bring the same thing into our bodies. People just feel closer to people who are eating the same food as they do.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“Children’s behaviors and beliefs give insight into those that raise them.”
― Steven Magee

“Being transformed requires daily practice, purpose, persistence and perseverance… During my ongoing observation of my inner thoughts, interactions with others, actions and behaviors, I have noticed progressive transformation. I am so very grateful!”
― Sandra C Bibb

“Non-enforcement of government regulation results in reckless behaviors by those that know the system is flawed.”
― Steven Magee

“Sit down and make a list of your values. Then look at your day and see whether most of what you do at work reflects those values. If your values are (for example) well-being and family but you are consumed by your work then clearly you aren’t living your values, are you?”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“I had suspected gay friends at school, they came out as adults. They liked to hang out with the girls and had feminine behaviors and voices.”
― Steven Magee

“Most often this one shot that we have at life is taking shots at us not because we handed it the gun, but because our actions keep supplying it with ammunition.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Trust is earned. So is distrust. And I often wonder which of the two we spend most of our time earning?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The unequivocal truths of human existence lies in the behavioral patterns entrenched in history.”
― Zephyr McIntyre

“Once their asshole light is blinking bright red — we disengage with no questions asked. So, assholes need not apply.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“Good succession plans identify the key knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to be successful in top leadership positions, rigorously evaluate internal talent against these criteria, systematically develop those with the most potential to fill these positions, and conduct regular talent reviews.”
― Richard L. Hughes Robert C. Ginnett Gordy J. Curphy, Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience by Hughes Richard L. Ginnett Robert C. Gannett Robert C. (1998-10-15) Hardcover

“Compassion has a time and place. Excessive empathy eradicates common sense and removes accountability.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“Those who persistently preface their rhetoric with how honest they are or how they would never lie are the greatest offenders of their own hogwash. People and organizations are no different.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“Maybe if you spend less time judging people. You can think straight.”
― Sasha Laghonh