Habit Quotes

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

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

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Habit is ten times nature.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.