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"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?" Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy." Napolean Hill 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process." Aldous Leonard Huxley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive." Wallace Irwin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." William James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." William James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." William James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." Orison Swett Marden 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny." Tryon Edwards 4.9375 average rating Rate this Quote
"Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit." Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi 4.9231 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle 4.8950 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." Leonard Bernstein 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Rob Gilbert 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit." Aristotle 4.8378 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver 4.8235 average rating Rate this Quote
"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." Abraham Lincoln 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." Herbert Kaufman 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia." Hans Albrecht Bethe 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
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