Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.
If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.