Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

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

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

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

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms.

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.

As each generation comes up that doesn't have the habits for paper it's just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they're used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we'll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn't see the value in that necessarily.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

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

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

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

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.