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Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

Smoking is a dying habit.

Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.