Habit Quotes

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.