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May you find great value in these Habit quotes and sayings.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry,
and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To enjoy good health,
to bring true happiness to one's family,
to bring peace to all, one must first
discipline and control one's own mind.
If a man can control his mind
he can find the way to Enlightenment,
and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- The Buddha
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
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