The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
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