Habit Quotes

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

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.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Success is having consistent work habits.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

Excellence has become a habit.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Habits form a second nature.