Habit Quotes

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

Profit is not an event. It's a habit.

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Character is inured habit.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

The power of habit is very strong.

Cultivate the habit of laughter.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.