Habit Quotes

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Habits are happiness of a sort...

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

My worst habit is speaking to much

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush Limbaugh show], and a lot of the motivation for it is defensive.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows?" (Kish)

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.