Habitual Quotes

179 quotes by 136 authors

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. — Charles Baudelaire
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains… — Marcus Aurelius
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic… — Chogyam Trungpa
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into… — William James
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock… — William James
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several… — William James
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other… — Abraham Lincoln
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. — William Wordsworth
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy
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
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can… — Karen Armstrong
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that… — Dalai Lama
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War… — Franklin C. Spinney

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