Quotations about Habits

December 12, 2008


Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.  ~Spanish Proverb

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.  ~Marcel Proust

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.  ~Eng’s Principle

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.  ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them.  And you don’t have to keep them, either.  They keep you.  ~Frank Crane

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.  It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.  ~William James, The Principles of Psychology

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Quotations about Self-Respect

December 12, 2008

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.  ~Max Nordau

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.  ~Theodore Parker

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.  ~John Herschel

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.  ~William J.H. Boetcker

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.  I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.  ~Michel de Montaigne

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Quotations about Self-Discovery

December 12, 2008

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.  ~Michel de Montaigne


If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.  ~Author Unknown

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.  ~George Moore

If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.  You may be dead.  ~Gelett Burgess

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them.  Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.  ~Amiel, Journal, 1884

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Quotations about Self-Control

December 12, 2008


It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.  ~Buddha

Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world, sometimes even worse than pain.  It is its own kind of pain.  ~Danzae Pace

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.  ~Carrie Latet

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.  ~Franklin P. Jones 

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation?  I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.  ~Oscar Wilde

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