Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
~By Joe Baca ~
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Habit is ten times nature.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
~By Barack Obama ~
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
~By Antonio de Mendoza ~
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
~By James Otis ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
~By Charles Wilson ~
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
~By William James ~
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
~By John James Audubon ~
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
~By Brad Paisley ~
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.
~By Tori Spelling ~
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
~By Fred Thompson ~
I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
~By Ivan Lendl ~
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
~By V. S. Pritchett ~
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
~By Graham Greene ~
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
~By Major Taylor ~
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
~By Luke Ford ~
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
~By Epictetus ~
I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
~By Eubie Blake ~
Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.
~By William Bartram ~
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
~By Joan Collins ~
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
~By George Washington Carver ~
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
~By Tacitus ~
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
~By Alfred Doblin ~
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
~By Herman Melville ~
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
~By Charles Darwin ~
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
~By Kent Conrad ~
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
~By Evan Esar ~
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
~By Marilu Henner ~
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~By Jim Ryun ~
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
~By Charles William Eliot ~
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
~By Maurice Strong ~
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~By Constantin Brancusi ~
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
~By Jessamyn West ~
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
~By Gene Tunney ~
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
~By Stuart Chase ~
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
~By Norman Cousins ~
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
~By Sabrina Lloyd ~
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
~By Hugo Weaving ~
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
~By Harry Johnston ~
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.
~By Edward Forbes ~
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
~By Christopher Gist ~
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