Habits Quotes · Page 67

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

— Mark Steyn

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

— Alan Paton

“Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”

— Clay Shirky

“Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!”

— Anonymous

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

— Brian Tracy

Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or…

— Wayne Dyer

“I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a…

— Joyce Meyer

“Since your habits and hygiene will all help you feel great, look great, and improve the quality of your life, isn’t it…

— Susan C. Young

Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

— John Todd

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward,…

— Amy Cuddy

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only…

— Mac Barnett

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning…

— Helen Fisher

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships,…

— Gustav Landauer

“But in actuality, the assumption that there is no freedom leads to the exact opposite of order in human behavior. If we…

— James C. Crumbaugh

“It's this same habit that confirms some of us, who are capable of better things, in Lucifer's own pride and stubbornness -…

— Charles Dickens

“…I must say that "Right" has no meaning to me whatsoever! Truth has meaning - as a direction. But one of the…

— Jerome Lawrence

To be successful & make your dream a reality stick to your plan, in the process stick to your action towards goal,…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

You're gone and I got to stay high All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh High all the…

— Anonymous

“I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to…

— Seymour Papert

“I can’t prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit.”

— Joan Ambu

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

— Voltaire

Sporting behaviour means fair behaviour. This is the player's task, not the referee's.

— Philipp Lahm

“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

— Patricia Velasquez

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

— Charlotte Mason

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

— C. S. Lewis

“Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

— William Faulkner

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

— Robert Hall

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

— Stephen Covey

Breaking old habits. Rethinking old thoughts. It's about time I changed some things in my life.

— Anonymous

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

— Honore de Balzac

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

— Alan Rudolph

The behavior of some children suggests that their parents embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle.

— Anonymous