Habit Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Habit quotes, Habit sayings, and Habit proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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A miser is like a person with bread who is starving. -- Middle Eastern (on greed)
Compete -- n't envy.- Yemeni (on jealousy and envy)
Do not attempt too much at once. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Do the math; count your blessings. -- unknown
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. -- unknown
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Don't go barking up the wrong tree. -- Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Don't have too many irons in the fire. -- unknown
Envy has no rest. -- Middle Eastern (on jealousy and envy)
Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other person's situation. -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
Envy of others always shows. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Greed often overreaches itself. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
He who bites the hand that feeds him, ends up licking the boot that kicks him. -- unknown (thanks to Dale Cade)
It is easy to despise what you cannot get. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Jealousy is a disease for the weak. -- unknown
Our desires are the cause of our suffering and pain in life. -- Old Buddist saying
Quit while your ahead. -- unknown
The covetous person is always in want. -- Irish (on greed)
The difference between a pig and a hog is the lean in his meat. -- unknown
The half is better than the whole. -- Hesiod (c.720 BC)
The love of money is the root of all evil -- Bible
The poor lack much but the greedy more. -- Swiss (on greed)
Unjustly got wealth is snow sprinkled with hot water. -- Chinese (on greed)
You can't have your cake and eat it too. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)