Habit Quotes

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Habit is a form of exercise.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Failure is not an American habit.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow.

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.

Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.