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“Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.”

Thinking Wells Dream Break Habit Treats Pursue Spouse Bad Habits Putting Things Off

Author:Joel Osteen

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

War Pain Remember Virtue Ought Habit Planning 4th Of July Carpe Diem Posterity Hereditary Vice And Virtue

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.”

Littles I Can Ideas House Building Habit Sells Architecture Supposed To Be Hawaii Colorado

Author:Trey Parker

“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”

Firsts Nature Natural Habit

Book:Human Happiness

Source: Human Happiness

“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”

Enough Action Habit Repetition Reflexes Physical Attraction Positive Living

Book:Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

Source: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

“Character is long-standing habit.”

Long Art Philosophy Character History Habit Standing

Author:Plutarch

“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”

Men Way Life Individual Cities Moral Practice Failing Habit Faults Private Life

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Source: My American Journey

“I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.”

Shows Habit Clean Bars Instance Show Me Salad Beets

Author:Chris Pratt

“The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.”

Differences Habit Bad Habits

Author:Steven Pressfield

“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”

Feels Passion Inspire Habit Each Day Shrinks Keep Moving Forward

Author:Marcel Proust

“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”

Firsts Knowing Habit Tradition Cruelty Customs Enchantment

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

“Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.”

Evil Broken Habit Broken Heart Broken Promises

Author:Quintilian

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Running Motivation Business Habit Tired Lazy Laziness Sloth Running Marathon Great Running Cross Country Running Marathon Running Running Training Training For A Marathon Getting Tired Being Lazy Lazy Man Slothfulness

Author:Jules Renard

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”

Habit Disguise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”

People Young Change Blood Habit Heat Inclination

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

“For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.”

Long Girl Crazy Habit Long Time Dating Crazy Girl

Author:Eli Roth

“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

Use Earth Names Sound Common Habit Mere Dust Buried Etymology Satanic Verses Naming Things

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”

Habit Terrible Comfortable Institutions Privilege Revolutionary Destructive My Thoughts Subversive Fear Nothing

Book:Why Men Fight

Source: Why Men Fight

“When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.”

Men Reason Belief Emotional Habit Conviction Reasoning Logical Intensity Favour

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.”

Mind Habit Discipline Activity Desirable Willpower Compulsion Undesirable Habits Of Mind

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.”

Trying Mean Feelings Certain Habit Busy Acknowledge Tension Manipulate Compulsion Doing Nothing

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.”

“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”

People Break Habit Victim Excuse Willingness Bad Habits

Author:Carlos Santana

“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.”

Persons Habit Prize Receiving Nobel Nobel Prize Regularity Gmos

Author:Jose Saramago

“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”

People Way Giving Kind God Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Understanding Habit All Kinds Generosity

Author:Susan Sarandon

“My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.”

People Wells Has Beens I Can Facts Age Sides Can Do Dark Habit Prove Yeah Dark Side Edgy

Author:George Saunders

“Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.”

Self School Courses Literature Habit High School Stuck Clothings Boots School Life

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?”

Literature Habit Bed Waste Weekend Precious Time

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

Shows Science Food Habit Eating Diets Sarcastic Statistics Contracts

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”

Inspirational Whole Action Lying Courses Leadership Secret Leader Military Habit Tests Meetings

Book:The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Source: The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.”

Thinking Men Seems Stuff Habit Attractive Ginger

Author:Ed Sheeran

“I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.”

Type Habit Cancer Radiation Medication Diabetes

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.”

Moral Groups Habit

Author:Michael Shermer

“Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.”

Ifs Three Ability Months Habit Three Months

Author:Sargent Shriver

“I have the same friends and the same bad habits.”

Habit Bad Habits

Author:Nate Silver

“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”

Death Habit Synonym

Author:Juliette Binoche

“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.”

Past Passion Evil Memories Enemy Figures Pride Habit Conscience Deeds Pursue Selfishness Malice

Author:George A. Smith

“I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.”

People World Persons Said Play Jobs Enjoy Habit Around The World Concerts Weird Things

Author:Robert Smith

“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”

Way Giving Habit Melancholy

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“Bad shopping habits die hard.”

Hard Dies Habit Shopping

Author:Tori Spelling

“I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.”

Littles Night Habit Bed Checks Odd Little Things Every Night

Author:Tori Spelling

“My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.”

Talent Habit Titles Bad Habits

Author:Layne Staley

“The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.”

Knows Years I Can Poor Numbers Habit Ordinary Years Ago Average Fifty Capability Work Habits

Author:Ben Stein

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”

Men Kind Literature Steps Mankind Habit Traps Bait

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”

Passion Race Habit Argument Intense Cautious Music Love

Author:Stendhal

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