Habit Quote by William Godwin Download Open image “What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?” — William Godwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habit Habits Offensive Power Us Which
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of… — William James Copy Share Image
“It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of… — William James Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of… — William James Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Godwin on Fenelon and his Valet * Following is an excerpt from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Book II, Chapter II: “Of Justice”:… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.” — Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
