Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Life is but a collection of habits.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

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.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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

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

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 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.