“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.” PeopleIfsFormHateEnemyHabitHate YouLoving YouLoving Your Enemies Author:Malcolm X
“the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.” ThinkingTwoFeelingsForceQualityEnemyEconomyGoneVirtueShareCenturyExpressionHabitRegardChiefsBarrenVergeClosenessThriftExpression Of Feeling Author:Rebecca Harding Davis
“people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.” PeopleForceChangeEnemyGreaterGeniusHabitCapableProfoundCowardiceMetamorphosis Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.” IfsThinkingWantYearsLooksI CanTurnsFoundForceUnitedEnemyHabitBenefitsConstantKillingAwfulAccomplishedInternalsInvitationsTalibanInstabilityAfghanKilling Each OtherOld Habits Author:Lawrence Eagleburger
“It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.” FeelingsEnemyOur LivesHabitEasierAssumingProfoundRoutineInertiaThoughts And Feelings Author:Nadia Boulanger
“Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.” ThinkingMenEnemyHabitReflectionPerfectionProfoundCivilizedCompelledPernicious Author:Constantine the Great
“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.” PastPassionEvilMemoriesEnemyFiguresPrideHabitConscienceDeedsPursueSelfishnessMalice Author:George A. Smith
“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.” PeopleIfsFormHateDecisionEnemyHeardRegretHabitEarsWideNever RegretLoving Your Enemies Author:Malcolm X