Pastoral Resources

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.