Habitual Quotes · Page 3

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

— George Eliot

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces…

— Joel Barlow

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our…

— Donald Wuerl

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never…

— Franz Grillparzer

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

— Samuel Butler

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

— Maxwell Maltz

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly…

— William Hazlitt

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

— Michael Medved

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

— Pema Chodron

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in…

— William James

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice…

— Thomas Jefferson

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

— Wallace D. Wattles

I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having…

— Bob Proctor

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

— Karl Albrecht

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

— Rhonda Byrne

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that…

— Sharon Salzberg

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new…

— William James

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

— Oscar Wilde

“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.”

— Bryant McGill

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass…

— William James