Pastoral Resources

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.