Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin… — William P. Perry Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by habit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed,… — Tony Robbins 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
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits. — Vilna Gaon Copy Share Image
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me. — Nico Copy Share Image
