Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked. Falling for you, Amarissa thought.

Yours might not be a quest for heroism. Yours might be to win a personal victory over a habit. Yours might be a personal battle to gain freedom from fears. A simple win is right

You will be able to change your life to what you want it to be only by taking responsibility for your own actions

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

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

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

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.

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

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