It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like,… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my… — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'The Power of Habit' is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It's smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The book The Power of Habit explains the nature of a habit in three steps, the cue, the routine and the reward.… — Devin D. Thorpe Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing… — Swara Bhaskar Copy Share Image
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two. — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
“If you have any kind of habit that is more powerful then God within you, then it is your God.” — Bob Greene Copy Share Image
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux. — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To make your dream a success story, give it wings of action with confidence and wisdom. Or you will lose and then… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“I lay in bed reading. I wasn't enjoying the book, but it's a habit with me, once I start, to read to… — Marco Douka Fool's Gold Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
