Habit Quotes

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

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.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

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

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

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

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

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

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

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.