Best 39 quotes in «bad habits quotes» category

I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.

Bad habits are like infection. Inflammation starts from the mouth and weaken the body’s ability.

I can see myself acquiring bad habits from living here. My little house is equipped with a TV, and I've watched a lot this week. At home I seldom switch on before 'The Nine O'Clock News', and usually it's later than that, for an arts documentary or a film. This week I've been watching TV while eating my solitary dinner, and leaving it on afterwards because when I switched it off the silence seemed so deathly, and I can't stand listening to music on my tinny transistor radio. I've seen all kinds of programmes I never normally watch, soaps and sitcoms and police series, consuming them steadily and indiscriminately like a child eating its way through a bag of mixed sweets. For simple mindless distraction you can't beat early evening television. No scene lasts more than thirty seconds, and the stories jump from character so fast that you hardly notice how cardboard-thin they are.

I know for a fact that he regularly steals from self-checkouts and sticks his gum underneath desks. Those are not the actions of a moral person.

Knowledge is learning something new everyday. Wisdom is letting go of some bad habits everyday.

Be comfortable with being uncomfortable with negative habits.

Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!

Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again!

I have tried to drink this pain away, to smoke it away, to write it away. I tried to make it numb, I tried to run away from it, I tried to fight it. But everything I tried to escape found me in my sleep again.

Life is a daily battle with people and things that are trying to change us and those that are trying to prevent us from changing.

Losing does not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

People who self-handicap purposely shoot themselves in the foot in order to protect themselves from having to confront their possible shortcomings. Many self-handicapping behaviors are those small, subtle bad habits like being late, gossiping, micromanaging, behaving passive-aggressively, or being a perfectionist. We may not recognize these self-defeating--and self-handicapping--traits for what they are. Or we may even wrongly perceive them as strengths. But in truth, they often get in the way of us blooming.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

Perhaps the Lord has warned you that areas of your life that will harm you if you don't do something about it. Perhaps you have tried to barricade yourself from temptation or sinful habits by avoiding the issue. What you can't see won't hurt you, or so you try to convince yourself. Perhaps you've tried to resist temptation through sheer willpower and positive confession. You've discovered how flimsy your self-defense strategy is. Look around; the Lord has provided a way of escape. Walk through it into the light.

She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.

Sin does not remain a contented servant; it seeks to seize and master its participants.

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Bad habits die hard...........❤ #livingforlove ❤ #rebelheart

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

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

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

A leopard Doesn't Change His Spots Over Night ~ Jay McKnight