A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
~By Elihu Root ~
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
~By Judith Wright ~
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
~By V. S. Pritchett ~
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 ~
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~By Mark Twain ~
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
~By Stendhal ~
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
~By Dee Hock ~
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~By Aristotle ~
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
~By Mason Cooley ~
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
~By James A. Michener ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
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 ~
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
~By G. Stanley Hall ~
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
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 ~
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
~By Robert Hall ~
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
~By Tom Holt ~
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
~By John Dryden ~
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 ~
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.
~By John Oldham ~
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
~By Saint Teresa ~
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
~By Stephen Covey ~
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
~By Barbra Streisand ~
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
~By Aristotle ~
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
~By Mike Ditka ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
~By Wallis Simpson ~
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
~By Al Franken ~
For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.
~By Mark Foley ~
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
~By Brian Tracy ~
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
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 ~
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
~By Townsend Harris ~
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
~By Henry Adams ~
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
~By Pierre Loti ~
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
~By George William Russell ~
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
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 ~
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
~By Napolean Hill ~
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
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 ~
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
~By Jay Inslee ~
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 ~
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Habit is a great deadener.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
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 ~
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
~By Michael Medved ~
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
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 ~
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~By Petrarch ~
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
~By Evan Esar ~
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.
~By Dennis Miller ~
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