Habit Quotes

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.

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

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming”; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.