Habit Quotes

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 moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Habit had made the custom.

Pursuits become habits.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Habit is necessary to give power.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.