Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

New habits can be launched.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.