Habit Quotes

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Our lives change when our habits change.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Habit is stronger than desire.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

You must throw away your bad habits to get good.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.