Habit Quotes

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

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

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

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.

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

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

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Habit is overcome by habit.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.