Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious. — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in… — William James Copy Share Image
It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
