I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo 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
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image