Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Bad shopping habits die hard.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

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

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.