Best habit & said Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.”

Want Made Said Feelings Ready Habit Constant Excellence Awe Relax Relaxation Awe Inspiring

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“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

“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.”

Knows Said Matter Done Use Choices Know How Habit Colour Said And Done

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”

Needs Said Community Economy Progress Masters Habit Tough Ultimate Infinite Victim Series Conservative Objectives Household Cunning Miraculous Thrust Ransom

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)”

May Said Language Parent Animal Evolution Habit Productions Branches Imperfection Strict Offspring Owing

Book:Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...

Source: Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

People Knows Way Firsts Mean Said Two Use Law Three Father Taken Doubt Figures Fields Habit Abuse Obvious Observation Speakers Quotations Toil Remarks When In Doubt Wilde Bernard Shaw Use And Abuse

Author:Nigel Rees

“"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."”

Knows Years May Said Funny Mines Habit Humorous Fifty Bites Nails Captains Old Habits

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Dombey and Son, Vol. I

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Dombey and Son, Vol. I

“Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.”

Giving Trying Littles Doe Said Play Faces Certain Jesus Sin Practice Failing Willing Habit Involved Giving Up Commitment Honestly Holiness Disciple Not Giving Up Luke

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness

“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.”

Said Shows Principles Break Broken Months Habit Slave Critics Smoking Now And Then Showing Off

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'”

Men Said Moments Asks Black Habit Denied Awkward Stood Up Clemency

Author:Bill Maher

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”

Needs Persons Said Numbers One Thing Heard Advice Willing Habit Conversation Contact Uncomfortable Resolve Success In Life Attempting

Author:Tim Ferriss

“I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.”

People Way Said Self Speak Fun Nice Habit Involved Conscious Tough Come Up My Way Staring Tennis Load Polite Scotland Hello Self Conscious

Author:Andy Murray

“Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.”

Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles

“Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.”

Said Whole Life Is Habit Commitment Areas Excellence Profound Diets Select Reserved Another Life Indivisible Physique Commitment To Excellence

Author:Robin Sharma

“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

“I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.”

Men Years Said Helping Force Waiting Laughing Habit Fellows Repeats Fishing Overboard

Author:George Burns

“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Use Imagine Sea Minutes Fields Habit Bed Train Phones Accepted Priorities Bags Going Out Mobile Banned Massage One Minute Mobile Phones North Sea

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“I remember someone said to me, "Beware of instant chemistry with people, because a lot of time it's the recognition of something familiar," and for people who have a habit of getting into unhealthy relationships, that's usually a bad thing.”

People Said Remember Habit Familiar Recognition Instant Bad Things Chemistry Unhealthy Unhealthy Relationships

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”

Said Fall Lost Silence Habit Degrees Phones Range Realising Isolated Blackberries

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'”

Said Bigs Known Media Habit Basketball My Friends Mark Excellence This Day Passion For Excellence

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“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

“You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.”

Thinking Knows Giving Littles Said Together Sweet Habit Giving Up Breaths Sake Despite Swings Charming Velvet Cushions Elphaba

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”

Persons Long Said Stills Young Speak Talking One Thing Changed Needed Habit Dear Explanation Wisest Riddle Dear Friend

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”

Humans Kind Said Used Human Beings Habit Creatures Creatures Of Habit

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

Littles Said Father Christ Minutes Regret Habit Wheels Acquire Worn Idle You Will Regret

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter”

Knows Said Habit Currents Tides Considering Marine Detectives

Author:Jeff Lindsay

“Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.”

Said Habit Losing Horse Bad Habits

Author:John Flanagan

“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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