Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“There is a hope of meeting point when question is of a Glass Half-Empty-Half-Full … But there is no hope when opinion… — Sandeep Sahajpal Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
