Habit Quotes

You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.

Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

Liberty can change habits.