81 quotes found
“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
“Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.”
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
“Laws are never as effective as habits.”
“Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.”
“The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.”
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of su...”
“Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.”
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
“When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.”
“Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.”
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
“Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.”
“The fox changes his skin but not his habits.”
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”
“There’s usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open-minded.”
“The force is within you force yourself.”
“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.”
