Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.