Habit Quotes

Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

We are mere bundles of habits.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

New habits can be launched.

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.