Best regard & habit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.”

Way Persons Habit Regard Offensive Injured Politeness Amiable Amends Making Amends

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“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.”

Thinking Two Feelings Force Quality Enemy Economy Gone Virtue Share Century Expression Habit Regard Chiefs Barren Verge Closeness Thrift Expression Of Feeling

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.”

Way Light Pleasure Share Habit Comfort Travel Regard Chosen Landscape Features Realms Sensibility Unnecessary Traveler Jars Grievance Intruders

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.”

Long Differences Race Nice Amount Habit Regard Discrimination Observing Allowance

Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.”

Years Wells Character Light Action Time Views Five Revolution Habit Regard Appearance Manners Motive Five Years Personal Appearance Gradual Change

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”

Purpose Evil Brother Duty Habit Regard Associates Drunkards Teetotalers Weaning

Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.”

Men Mind Long Doe Mistake Habit Infinite Regard Arise Fixed Contradiction Finite Habits Of Mind

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”

People Used Wise Honest Judging Habit Benefits Asking Regard Cassius

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”

Men Inspirational Character Shows Feelings Pay Habit Regard Deny Simplest Egotism Boundless Trifles

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.”

Effort Half Team Greatness Habit Regard Champion Subtle Teamwork Traits Hearted Consuming Entitlement Grind Sap Milestone Erosion Half Hearted

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."”

People Ifs Feels Two Loses Wealth Money Numbers Rich Habit Losing Regard Wealthy Tempted Get Rich

Author:Brian Tracy

“So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.”

Animal Quality Special Dog Habit Taste Horse Intelligent Regard Etc Manifest Temper Transmission

Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

“With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.”

Ifs Way Should Made Law House Opinion Strange Habit Members Findings Bases Regard Majority Criminals Lists Customs Hunting Favour Polls Bans Suggesting Distasteful Criminal Law Opinion Polls

Author:Kenneth Clarke

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