The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world, — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take… — Jim Stafford Copy Share Image
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down,… — Corey Haim Copy Share Image
I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Habits are one of the ways the brain learns complex behaviors. Neuroscientists believe habits give us the ability to focus our attention… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of… — Sarah Wendell Copy Share Image
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody… — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the trip to Cairo that had caused the shift, scientists were convinced, or the divorce or desert trek. It was… — Charles Duhigg 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
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
In order for a person to change they must be willing to change themselves. We all know how hard it is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day. — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life. — Jim George Copy Share Image
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the… — Epictetus 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
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
