Negative Behavior Quotes:

I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.

- Buck Brannaman

topic: Horse, Believe, Waiting, Just Say No, Negative Behavior

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

- Jeannette Walls

source: Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Negative, Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement, Fussing

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

- Byron Katie

source: "Byron Katie Spiritual Leader. Story UNteller. Ambassador of Inner Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.awaken.com. September 30, 2013.

topic: Letting Go, Addiction, People, Negative Thoughts, Hard To Let Go

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

- Jeannette Walls

source: Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mom, Children, People, Positive Reinforcement, Fussing

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

- Virginia H. Pearce

topic: Block, Criticism, Negative, Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement

It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories, but to speak of "problems of development" and to search for the meaning of feeding and sleep disturbances or behavior disorders in the developmental phase which has produced them.

- Selma Fraiberg

topic: Sleep, Negative, Development, Developmental, Negative Behavior

If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Dream, Real, Giving, Negative Behavior

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

- Lee L Jampolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Bad Situations, Negative Behavior

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack of integrity-a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain.

- Tara Leigh Cobble

topic: Pain, Integrity, Distance, Lack Of Integrity, Negative Behavior