William Cowper Quotes

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

William Cowper

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Alive
  • Obstacles
  • Overcome

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Alive

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Learning
  • Learn
  • Habit

• You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Important
  • Money
  • Remember

• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Habit
  • Luck
  • Opportunities

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Freedom
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Alive
  • U.S.
  • Getting

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Strong
  • Broken
  • Habit

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• Only the insecure strive for security.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Security
  • Strive
  • Insecure

• When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Proud

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Politics
  • Identity

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.

  

  Hans Asperger
  • Autistic people
  • Social community

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

  

  William Cowper
  • Habit
  • Alive
  • Strive