Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

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

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

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

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

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

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.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

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

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?