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Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging bad behavior quotes, bad behavior sayings, and bad behavior proverbs.
Best Bad Behavior Quotes
- “Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.” ~ Martha C. Nussbaum
- “A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.” ~ Jane Austen
- “When you don’t respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people’s minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.” ~ Jo Beverley
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“If there are issues, if there’s wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “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.” ~ David D. Burns
- “Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.” ~ Debra Winger
- “Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you’d be terrified. So terrified you’d probably run away. Great, fear’s doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can’t move. This would be very bad. Guilt’s the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can’t function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.” ~ David D. Burns
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“Bad beliefs make bad behavior.” ~ Warren Akin Candler
- “The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.” ~ Ilana Mercer
- “Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.” ~ Mark Steyn
- “Discipline isn’t a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It’s the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.” ~ Buck Brannaman
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“Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.” ~ Ted Nugent
- “The argument that ‘boys will be boys’ actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.” ~ Jackson Katz
- “Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren’t the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more “natural” it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.” ~ N. T. Wright
- “I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.” ~ Leslye Headland
- “What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.” ~ Tullian Tchividjian
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“The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.” ~ Sergio Aragones
- “Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.” ~ Steven Pinker
- “At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?” ~ Dan Gelber , Justifying bad behavior quotes
- “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.” ~ David Sheff
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“You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
- “You cannot “love” a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can’t “love” a criminal into stopping his crimes.” ~ Cesar Millan
- “It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.” ~ Terence McKenna
- “Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it’s legal. I don’t know, it just that’s the – you can’t stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then, of course, they’ll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.” ~ Larry Hagman
- “I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.” ~ Adam Croasdell
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“Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we’re in his head. You’re hearing all his thought processes and you’re hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don’t have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don’t have him editorializing it for you.” ~ Jonathan Tropper
- “We’re not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we’ve made previously.” ~ David Oyelowo
- “What’s amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband’s absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she’s a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.” ~ Madeline Miller
- “Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O’Reilly. He’s done certain things to Bill O’Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that’s bad behavior. But it’s okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn’t be so sensitive. He should ignore that.” ~ Rupert Murdoch
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“I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He’s a bully, you enable bad behavior when you’re nuanced with a guy like that.” ~ Jeb Bush
- “Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.” ~ Steven Weber
- “I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I’ve always liked bad behavior, I’m a fan of bad behavior, and I don’t think you have to justify bad behavior.” ~ Todd Phillips
- “If you manage a team of 10 people, it’s quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that you’d be associated with that kind of incompetence.” ~ Ben Horowitz
- “Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
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“I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.” ~ Todd Phillips
- “Don’t reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a ‘moral hazard,’ because the bailout absolved the bank’s bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.” ~ Eliot Spitzer
- “I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they’ve fired missiles – because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.” ~ Richard Armitage
- “Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don’t have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can’t get him out, get help. It’s available. In the meantime, don’t let him near the kids, and don’t let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There’s an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]” ~ Lewis B. Smedes , Tolerating bad behavior quotes
- “The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dysphemisms and euphemisms.” ~ Thomas Szasz
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“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.” ~ Deb Caletti
- “We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God’s law and God’s gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.” ~ Tullian Tchividjian
- “The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s sanctuary. It is every town and county’s fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion, and bad behavior.” ~ Amy Bloom - “There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.” ~ Debbie Ford
- “In the military, I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It’s also a psychological trap that can stop one’s growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.” ~ Karl Marlantes
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“A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.” ~ Renee Fleming
- “I’m not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that’s a cop-out. I don’t have a lot of empathy for that.” ~ Charlize Theron
- “Mostly we’re motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home, the motivation is much less clear. At home, there’s a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” ~ Ben Marcus
- “My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn’t around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation – of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn’t like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.” ~ Mark Strong
- “The government is promoting bad behavior… do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages… This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage? President Obama, are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It’s a moral hazard” ~ Rick Santelli
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“I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds” ~ Garrison Wynn
- “When Iran continues to get away with bad behavior, what do our allies who are Iran’s enemies think about us? It is why we cannot stand by while Russia allies itself with Iran. You can’t outsource American leadership to Russia. Russia isn’t on our side. They’re on their side and Iran’s side.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks, and bad behavior.” ~ Elizabeth Reaser
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“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.” ~ Anthony Daniels
- “I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she’ll actually get help. Coffee’s one thing, but coke is another. It’s not something you want to really have as a problem in your life. I think we have to kind of stop rewarding bad behavior and actually start helping people.” ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt , Rewarding bad behavior quotes
- “The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.” ~ Tessa Jowell
- “Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation’s ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.” ~ Robert P. George
- “Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful
friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.” ~ Pio of Pietrelcina
