Habit Quotes
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
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.
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.
A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.
we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments
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.
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.
Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.
Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.
If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.
I am a creature of habit with my food and snacks. I make sure to get in all three meals and drink my Eboost every morning, and lots of hot tea keeps me going!
Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.