Walter Lippmann Quotes

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

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

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.

My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Reform must come from within and not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.