Best Habit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.”

“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”

Results Struggle Progress Produce Habit Machines Breaking Promises Sith

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.”

Hands Memories Habit Fingers

Author:Anne Bosworth Greene

“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!”

Writing Inspiration Asks Heaven Hours Week Fronts Months Habit Shapes Notion Mood Staring Lapses

Author:Anne Bosworth Greene

“Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.”

Book Form Forever Habit Live Forever

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.”

Should Effort One Thing Habit Higher All Things Perfection Lifts Reaching Application Begets Thoroughness

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.”

People Ifs Littles Ideas Individual Nations Effort Economy Taught Habit Mass Thrift Domestic Life

Author:Julia McNair Wright

“The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.”

Sleep Secret Habit Appetite Companionship Good Habits

Author:Marjorie Benton Cooke

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”

Needs Mind Humans May Age Lasts Differences Cases Habit Roots Busy Human Mind Contrast Observing Monotony Old Habits

Author:Maren Elwood

“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.”

Firsts Looks Long Sometimes Might Pain Dies Turns Belief Economy Habit Drug Expectations Ease Cherish Disappointing Narcotics Better Days Commendable

Author:Marjorie Hillis

“Good habits were the easiest ones to break.”

Break Habit Good Habits

Book:Unwanted Company: A Munch Mancini Mystery

Source: Unwanted Company: A Munch Mancini Mystery

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“Smoking is a dying habit.”

Dying Habit Smoking

Author:Virginia Bottomley

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

Ifs Trying Change Like You Habit Standing Notion Milk Cows Don't Change

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”

Way Humans Children Has Beens Able Taught Habit Creatures Normal Acquire Psychologist Taught Us Motion Pictures Retarded Slow Motion

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.”

“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.”

“It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.”

Want Mind Long Loss History Regret Habit Occupation Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.”

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.”

States Government Form Law Young Spirit Principles Habit Citizens Constitution Adaptation Neglected Forms Of Government Permanence

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”