Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I knew I needed to workout for my sanity, and I try and make it a daily habit if I can, so… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“It’s often said that cleaning your house is like polishing yourself. I think that this is a golden rule. It isn’t just… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
“I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I… — Lucy Irvine Copy Share Image
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be… — Chuck Knox Copy Share Image
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which… — David Frost Copy Share Image
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending… — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a habit of communicating with great passion and regularity. I have great respect for both individuals,… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
