Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the…

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

— Ford Madox Ford

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a…

— Dan Pena

“some evidence has accumulated that people who habitually fail to put the most favorable cast on their circumstances run the risk of depression.”

— Thomas Gilovich

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their…

— Hugh Ferriss

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command…

— John Stuart Mill

“In fact, some people use humour so habitually that it is hard for them to remain serious for any length of time.”

— Margaret Hough

“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he…

— Jacques Barzun

“our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of…

— Matthew Kelly

“5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. Habit comes out of practice, and forms character by degrees, and eventually works out destiny. Therefore we…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on…

— Henepola Gunaratana

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

— Gary Ryan

“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free…

— Herbert Spencer

“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves…

— Twyla Tharp