Habit Quotes

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

Your habits will determine your future.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.