Habits Quotes

Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

While the law may not change the hearts of men, it can and it does change the habits of men. And when you begin to change the habits of men, pretty soon the attitudes will be changed.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Natural selection, also, leads to divergence of character; for more living beings can be supported on the same area the more they diverge in structure, habits, and constitution.

He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.