Constructive Behavior Quotes

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

If you cannot make a positive contribution, at least do not impede.

I've never been a guy that's been salty about the shots I'm getting. I just try to play the right way.

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.