Best habit & hours Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.”

Men Way Years Made Ends Hours Study One Thing He Man Habit One Hour

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.”

People World Important Real Reading Hours Prayer Walks Meditation Minutes Habit Solitude Quiet Real World Quiet Time Inspirational Prayer Inspirational Reading

Author:Ken Blanchard

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.”

May Long Hours Position Habit Income Permanent Subordinates Long Hours

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.”

“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

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.”

Knows Men May Different Dream Body Action Spirit Purpose Hours Plans Habit Pure Ideals Determine Noble Cherish Lofty

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”

Mean Littles Hours Loses Poor Five Happened Months Habit Eating Gains Twenties Pounds Stomach Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Mila Kunis

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

World Love Mean Together Night Hours Church Common Habit Taste Worship Mass Letters Embrace Lips Phrases Formal Saturday Ceremony Saturday Night Love Means Words Love

Book:A Burnt Out Case

Source: A Burnt Out Case

“Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.”

Children Character Parent Hours Depends Habit

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.”

Writing Trying Has Beens Hours Written Habit Good Things Busy Very Good Reserves Busy Life Work Habits

Author:John Updike

“The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.”

Giving Opportunity Hours Habit Vices Delay Reformation Delayed Another Opportunity

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

Long Lasts Reading Hours Perfect Pleasure Support Gone Habit Creatures Prepared Pleasant Fades Recreation Support You

Author:Anthony Trollope

“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.”

Long Hours Habit Prison Sentences Bars Locals Unnecessary Looking Forward Campus Subordinates Pubs Clauses Future Life Pickups Happy Hour

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake

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