Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

I’m a pedophile. You know that, … I’m gonna look. He was feeding my habit. … It’s like crack. After you give them that one rock, you know he’s gonna come back. He’s hooked.

When we are honorable in the small things each day, we eventually become honorable in all things in life.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on...

The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break a pattern.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we...

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor.

I can be impatient. But I don’t think it’s always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is...

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one’s opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war –so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.

He has a billionaire’s spending habit, but a millionaire’s budget.

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think – and to feel – such melancholy things.

Nothing seems crazy when you’re used to it.

By the practice of being honorable in small things each day, one eventually becomes honorable in all things every day!!!

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only...

As a society we have a habit of saying a little drug experimentation is OK for young people when they venture off onto their own. In actuality the experimentation affects everyone and often times leads...

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

I don’t think it’s time yet. We need to convert a lot more people to the habit of buying music online. I don’t think a way to convert more people is to raise the price.

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At...

Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner Voice; and you are assured of unshakable Peace and infinite Joy.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you’ll ever be published or paid or even that you’ll be able to finish the particular work you’ve begun. It...

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.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Forrest Gander: “Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green...

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until...

We are the sum total of our choices.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself

You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we’re taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

This won’t be a habit for us. It’s over. It’s done. All that losing ended today.

I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits.

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.