Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

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.

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

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.

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

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.

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

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.

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

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

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

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter