Cesare Pavese Quotes

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.