Best habit & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”

Ifs Needs Littles Said Lasts Lying Evil Our Lives Habit Findings Longing Seeking Revelations Woe Last Words Seeking God Finding God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?”

Life Is Lying Habit Series Determine

Book:What All the World's A-Seeking

Source: What All the World's A-Seeking

“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”

People Reason Age Lying Purpose Asks Habit Add

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”

People Ifs Lying Realizing Habit Taste Deceit

Book:The Face of War

Source: The Face of War

“All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.”

Lying Black Differences White Dangerous Habit Gentleman Grants Disgrace White Lie

Author:Frederick Marryat

“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

“Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.”

Ifs Should Use Lying Sleep Habit Pills Spoil Sleeping Pills

Book:The Holy

Source: The Holy

“When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.”

Long Lying Passion Company Habit Companion Incredulity

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.”

Lying Cases Habit Merit Telling The Truth Worth It Exhausting

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.”

Believe Lying Literature Half Habit Defense Half Truth Ideologues

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.”

Ends Lying Habit Politician Noble Optimistic Phrases

Book:The Early Life of Stephen Hind

Source: The Early Life of Stephen Hind

“It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.”

People Persons Lying Courses Habit Telling The Truth Devices Deceiving People Lie

Author:George D. Prentice

“Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.”

Men Way Mind Reason Lying Clear Habit Perception Weak Competition Contrary Odds Bent Inclination

Author:George Berkeley

“Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price they pay for greatness. These habits of mind and body serve us well in many aspects of our lives, but not in all aspects of our lives. Course Correction is about taking time to heal and exploring the joy that lies beyond adversity.”

“Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.”

Mean Political Lying Common Habit Truth Is Normal Intellectual Sickness Telling The Truth Disgusting Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Ali Sina

“Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.”

Thinking Feels Lying Opportunity Waiting Too Much Habit Practicals Operations Abstract Pupils Prompts

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down!”

Ifs Writing Would Be Young Lying Advice Habit Comfortable Standing Where You Are Lifelong Few Words Young Writers Truman Lying Down

Author:Cassandra Clare

“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.”

Needs Giving Lying Voice Loses Silence Danger Listening Habit Comfort Essentials Acquire True Friend Resisting

Author:Francois Fenelon

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.”

People World Wells Use Problem Lying Found Views Materials Habit Essentials Roots Selfish Manifest Consumption Raw Materials World View Selfish World

Author:Yehuda Levi

“Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.”

Mean Book Eye Spirit Lying Passion Understanding Christ Study Seeing Habit Cost Conscience Sensitive Purity Expensive Discernment Daily Habits

Author:S. D Gordon

“Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.”

Men Facts Success Lying Desire Results Common Secret Successful Habit Method Every Man Satisfied Common Denominator Successful Man

Author:Albert L. Gray

“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

“The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.”

People Thinking Should Seems Lying Habit Tasks Essence Accounts Procrastination Avoiding Psychics Tolls Making People Happy

Author:James Surowiecki

“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”

Stills Body Lying Given Conditions Flower Habit Addiction Alcohol Recovery Desert Addict Drug Addiction Dormant Addiction Recovery Drug Addiction Recovery Overcoming Addiction

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

People Doe Reason Remember Lying Memories Habit Tests Bother Paranoid Slipping Remember Me

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.”

Ifs Body Lying Night Next Habit Heavy Familiar Breathing Pet Friendly Reassurance Affront Necessary Things

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.”

Ifs Wells Heart Has Beens Facts Lying Hate Jesus Speak Pieces Trouble Cry Broken Perspective Habit Weakness Overcoming Patterns Surface Quitting Relief Overlooked Treasured Brokenhearted

Author:John Eldredge

“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.”

Wells Ideas Lying Order Strong Fantasy Seeing Habit Brave Patterns Intellect Maturity Revelations Aggressive Compassionate Thieves Polite Grammar Not Strong Old Ideas Simulate

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)”

Knows Lying Habit Gentle Knights

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.”

Knows Needs Done Lying Habit Rely Faculty Dormant Rely Upon

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

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