the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage… — Margaret Heffernan 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
Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Be positive to the point where it becomes such a strong habit that you don’t know how else to live.” — Xavier Saer Copy Share Image
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game… — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature… — Victoria Pendleton Copy Share Image
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . .… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Children don’t suffer from habit, which is why they get excited by some very key but simple things like puddles, jumping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit. — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
For so quite a few people, telling lies is as simple and normal as waking up every morning for daily routine. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. — John Spence Copy Share Image
I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think. — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
