Best habit & greater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.”

Men Art Given Technology Greater Violence Habit Drug Prove Experiments Plague Initials Psych Specifications Irritants

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.”

Thinking Humans Life Is Goal Steps Greater Greatness Keys Habit Roots Leap Small Steps

Author:Robert Genn

“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits”

Mind Wells Doe Reason Feelings Song Moral Greater Effects Produce Habit Warm Strikes Convince Ballads Alterations

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

Want Giving Different Self Helping Pleasure Greater Habit Healthy Treats Rewards Self Control Justified Vitality Indulgence Boost Healthy Habits Small Pleasures

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“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.”

People Force Change Enemy Greater Genius Habit Capable Profound Cowardice Metamorphosis

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.”

Matter Evil Hurt Greater Too Much Habit Letters Sight Affair Trifles Begets Vex

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”

Kind Greater Greatness Habit Drinking Foe Intemperance

Author:Walter Scott

“What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”

Ifs World Joy Desire Humanity Greater Objects Habit Mass Concern Satisfying Isolated Consumerism Bondage Overconsumption

Book:The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.”

Ifs Needs War Reason Enough Animal Path Greater Habit Eating Pursue Secure Neighbour Eating Animals

Author:Socrates

“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.”

Mean Self Action Law Individual Economy Greater Rights Habit Reform Denial Idle Sober Industrious Self-denial

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.”

Source: Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!

“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.”

Men Needs Wells Said Might Pleasure Talking Greater Subjects Duty Habit Achievement Consideration Boast Conceit Talking Much

Author:Martin Van Buren

“In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.”

Mind Looks Ends Hard Action Responsibility Environment Greater Habit Balance Crisis Graves Who We Are Personal Responsibility Habits Of Mind Deteriorating

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We all have areas of our own lives where we have a hard time forgiving, whether it's with ourselves, or others, but when we can practice forgiveness, many of our self-destructive habits will begin to fade away.”

Believe Self Hard Practice Path Greater Habit Areas Forgiving Track Heal Hard Times Destructive Fades Fade Away Self Destructive Greater Love

Author:Marci Shimoff

“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.”

Humans Motivational Human Beings Acting Greater Influence Emotional Habit Theatre Crafts

Author:Lee Strasberg

“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.”

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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