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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire… — Mahatma Gandhi
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. — William James
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen… — Alice Meynell
We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express… — Josh McDowell
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism .… — Margaret Thatcher
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a… — Jack Kornfield
Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the… — Brian Tracy
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of… — Wallace D. Wattles
The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you. — Grenville Kleiser
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot… — Mark Twain
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. — Stephen Covey
They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny,… — Orison Swett Marden
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,… — John Dewey
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind… — George Boole
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train… — Lydia Sigourney
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions… — Simon Newcomb
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann

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