Habit Quotes

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

habit is our idea of eternity.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Everybody's got a habit.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

Get in the habit of appreciating things.