Habits - Quotes

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Habits

A habit is a choice that we deliberately make at some point and then stop thinking about, but continue doing, often every day. - Charles Duhigg

A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a REWARD. - Charles Duigg

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. - Desiderius Erasmus

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. - Hosea Ballou

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. - Tryon Edwards

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course. - Aristotle 

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. - Unknown

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. - Unknown

Bad habits are overcome by good habits. - Lucas Remmerswaal

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with. - Orrin Woodward 

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst Man good throughout. - Benjamin Franklin

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. - Julien Smith

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann

Habit is a cruel jailer, yet how well-beloved. - Nellie Seelye Evans

Habit is a great swamp wherein men are turned to fossils. - Abraham Miller

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

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; as self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. - Arthur Koestler

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. - William James

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock. - Marcel Proust

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change. - Charles Caleb Colton

Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters. - Nathaniel Emmons

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. - Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - Saint Augustine

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters. - Croft M. Pentz

Habits influence the character pretty much as undercurrents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their influence is not the less important because imperceptible. - Christian Nestell Bovee

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. - Unknown

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees – as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. - John Dryden

In time, action becomes habit, and habit can wear reason away, leaving no traces. - Bernard Beckett

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them. - Austin O’Malley

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. - John Steinbeck

Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. - Confucius

Most men are prisoners at best, who some strong habit every drag about like chain and ball. - Henry Abbey

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. - William James

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lomardi

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act. - Orison Swett Marden

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. - Leo Aikman

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Smauel Johnson

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - William Somerset Maugham

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behaviour. - Maxwell Maltz

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? - Jack LaLanne

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden

We talk of acquiring a habit; we should rather say being acquired by it. - Eliza Cook

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you. - Paramahansa Yogananda

When habit clutches a man, he becomes a limp mass of nerveless meat. - Abraham Miller

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Ignorance - Quotes

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - Benjamin Franklin

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. - Walt Disney

Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession: their ignorance. - Hendrik Willem van Loon

Be not ashamed to own thy ignorance of some things. - Edward Counsel

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. - Publilius Syrus

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. - Eoin Colfer

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. We are all ignorant about different things. - Will Rogers

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil. - Aeschylus 

Ignorance is more costly to any state than education. - Booker 

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. - Norman MacDonald

Ignorance is blinding. We fall in love with what we believe, and become resistant to change, to seeing a different viewpoint, to the point of not even acknowledging that there may even be another valid viewpoint. When that happens, we're blind – blind to ourselves, to others, to what matters. - Jeanette Angell

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. - Frank Dane

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. - Luc de Clapiers

Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul. - Edward Counsel

Ignorance is the cause of fear. - Seneca

Ignorance is the deepest darkness. - Unknown

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. - Francois Rabelais

Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything we could not endure existence for a single hour. - Anatole France

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star. - Confucius

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night. - Dean Koontz

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles Darwin

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. - Sydney J. Harris

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato

Nothing is worse than active ignorance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It doesn't matter if you are ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you. - K. J. Parker

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. - James Baldwin 

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. - Arnold H. Glasgow

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. - Dan Simmons

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. - Tryon Edwards

Noting in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. - Horace Mann

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. - Socrates

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson

The darkest night is ignorance. - Gautama Buddha

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. - Albert Camus

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. - Henry Ward Beecher

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. - William Hazlitt

The most violent element in society is ignorance. - Emma Goldman

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. - George Takei

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. - Frank A. Clark

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. - Elbert Hubbard

The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. - Arnold Glasgow

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place. Tony Ballantyne

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton

There is no darkness, but ignorance. - William Shakespeare 

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Johann Von Goethe

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. - Henry Ford

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. - Walter Cronkite

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If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. - Victor Hugo

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. - Gerald Brenan

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte Debussy-Rabutin

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein 

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper

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Illusions - Quotes

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. - Christian Nestell Bovee

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Voltaire

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. - Sigmund Freud

In youth, we feel the richer for every new illusion; in mature years, for every one we lose. - Madame Swetchine

Modern man’s difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness, and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. - Benjamin Hoff

One of the greatest bores in life is a too knowing fellow, who sees through all delusions, and will never let you enjoy any of them, not even your favorite ones, no matter how agreeable they may be, but must be always waking you out of some delicious dream, only to tell you, "My dear sir, you are dreaming;" as if it were not both proper and natural to dream. He forgets that many things are pleasant only while the delusions which make them so last. - Christian Nestell Bovee

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy. - George Eliot

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. - William John Locke

The trouble with illusions is that you do not realize you have them till they are shattered. - Unknown

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. - Luigi Pirandello

Jealousy - Quotes

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Jealousy

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein

Do not waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes you are behind. The race is long and, in the end, it is only with yourself. - Unknown

Jealousy comes from counting others' blessings instead of our own. - Unknown

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. - Maya Angelou

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. - Emma Goldman

Jealousy is the anger of the weak. - Osho

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Henry Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. - John Dryden 

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - Unknown

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. - Unknown

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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. - John Stuart Mill

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and colour, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Charles Colton

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever  been. - Albert Einstein

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - Homer

Hate / Hatred - Quotes

All the time we spend hating is time that we’ve given away to someone who hasn’t earned our time. - Seth Godin

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. - John Lyly

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. - Seneca

Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Folks never understand the folks they hate. - James Russell Lowell

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. - Maya Angelou

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. - Cyril Connolly 

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. - Ann Landers

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. - Cyril Connolly

Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated. - George Bernard Shaw

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. - Coretta Scott King

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Unknown

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule - The Buddha

Hatred is the great blazing fire. - Unknown

Hatred will take up expensive rental space in your heart, and not in the heart of the person you hate. - Unknown

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. - James Baldwin 

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. - Cicero

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. - James Baldwin 

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. - Tennessee Williams

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree. - Ivan Panin

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart. If you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. - C. Joybell C.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me – they hate you too. They hate everybody. Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone – and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. They need hate in order to feel superior. - Elie Wiesel

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. - Thomas Dreier

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. it causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Love, friendship, respect, will never unite people as much as a common hatred for something. - Anton Pavlovich Chekho

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred. This is the law Eternal. - Unknown

Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate. - Robert Elliott Gonzales

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. - Nelson Mandela

Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

Take care that no one hates you justly. - Publilius Syrus

The fiercest fire is hatred. - Gautama Buddha

The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them. - Lawana Blackwell

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them. - Charles Caleb Colton

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. - Dale Carnegie

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