Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Valerie Steele

You don't have to be a size 2 or have a wonderful little waist, which helps you get over the despair of shopping.

Og Mandino

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Emile Zola

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

Emile M. Cioran

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Gordon Auchincloss

He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.

Steve Siegel

He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.

William James

We are mere bundles of habits.

William James

New habits can be launched.

William James

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

William Frederick Book

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Walter Benjamin

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Tony Visconti

I am not a creature of habit.

Dave Mason

I never keep them when I make them, so I make a habit of not making them. Once you make them, they're so hard to keep. . . . I used to smoke and used to say, 'OK, that's it,' but 10 minutes later, you're lighting a cigarette.