Habit Quotes

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have an expensive drug habit. The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.