Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image