Habit Quotes

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Smoking is a dying habit.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.