Habit Quotes

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.

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

Changing people's habits is very expensive

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Habit is a great deadener.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.