Habit - Quotes
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don`t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
Lie down too many times - make a habit of showing your soft belly - and you forfeited the spine it takes to get up.
Most of the biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to, because we can't handle, don't want to handle, the conflict that it provokes. But when we dare to break that silence, or when we dare to see, and we create conflict, we enable ourselves and the people around us to do our very best thinking.
Open information is fantastic, open networks are essential. But the truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.
Discovery often means simply the uncovering of something which has always been there but was hidden from the eye by the blinkers of habit.
You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don`t see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.