Habit Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Life is but a collection of habits.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.