368 Habit Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. Charles Reade

Character You Reap Destiny Habit Sow Act

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. Chinua Achebe

Best You Election Free Long Lose Free Election Facility Habit Tend Long Period Leaders Particularly Period Always After Which Elected Used

I'm very much a creature of habit. Eminem

Habit Very Much Creature

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus

Angry You Evil Increased Assured Only Habit Whenever Present

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. George Gurdjieff

Change Struggle Progress Result Every Machine Habit Without Breaking Produces

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth. Gretchen Rubin

Life Better Will Power Before Energy Harness Our Easier Rightly Ability Direct Habit Habits Shaping Force Make Go After Against Us Sweeping Notorious Serenity Actions Even Growth

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing. Jake Gyllenhaal

Work You Opportunities Blessed Same Thing Busy Habit Had Attention Terms Am Lot Get Same Anything Which Certain Paying Thing

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. James Surowiecki

Great You Happy People Procrastination Psychic Think Unpleasant Lies About Mental Seems Habit Generally Takes Involve Indulging Make Although Surely Doing Perplexing Accounts Tasks Essence Should Avoiding Toll Thing

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. Joe Eszterhas

Cigarettes Habit Part Behaviour Human Human Behaviour

Avoid the 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes - maybe it stops at the surface and won't be an issue, maybe not. Neil Blumenthal

Time You Treat Feedback First Loudest Out Find Some Habit Investigating Particular Like Piece First Time How Surface Issue Hear Goes Gets Wheel Maybe Stops Clue Avoid Deep Grease

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor

Long Beginning Gone Virtually Ran Indeed East Propaganda About Habit Wrote Contempt Said Misunderstanding How Affairs Edward Very Greek Middle Middle East Little Centuries Century Europe

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too. Nick Harkaway

Day You Peace Every Day Lose Gone Every Too State Possible Spinning Habit Point Remake Like Balanced Sort Equilibrium Get Egg Stability Choice Your Momentum

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time. Pema Chodron

Time News Fly Long Long Time Rage Our Extreme Seeing Something Habit Emotional Particular Reaction Equally Because Cultivating Been Hearing Very Very Long Time Person Get Certain Now Right

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. Robert Green Ingersoll

Old Living Habit Beat Dead Theologians Bones

My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth. Rufus Wainwright

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. Rutherford B. Hayes

Bad Must Bad Habit Habit Off Swear Swearing

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Salvador Dali

Habit Democratic Democratic Societies Making Revelations Am Unfit Publication Societies

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. Tacitus

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history. Vernon Howard

History You Face Carefully Drama Tell See Entire Facial Habit Study Make Owner Human Your Expressions Profitable

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