Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

We are mere bundles of habits.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

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

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

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

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

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

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

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

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

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

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.