There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace… — Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility… — Napoleon Hill 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
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Considering that our habits create our life, there is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to learn and… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge… — Mel White Copy Share Image
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“When negative thoughts about anything – be it a person, an unhealthy habit, a circumstance or a work deadline – surround our… — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
By training yourself for doing things you dont wish and keeping your wishes unsatisfied at times, you gain control over yourself, your… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when… — Bruce Lee 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
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things… — Ken Keyes Jr 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
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did… — Al Franken 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
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
