Habit Quotes

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

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

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.

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

Habit is necessary to give power.

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

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

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

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.

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

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.