Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Your library is your portrait.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Man is a dogs idea of what God should be.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

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

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.