Pastoral Resources

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Winning is a habit.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

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

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.