Behavior Change Quotes

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

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.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.