Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

With the new year having just begun, many of us have tried to change our habits, all of them, all at once. The best way to change your habits is to change them one at a time, to start small and gradually work your way up. Choose a habit, whether it be to stop doing something or start doing something, and focus all your time and intention on that habit. If you start trying to split your attention between multiple activities, you will soon find that you lose your motivation, focus, and energy. Small regular actions are far more beneficial than large irregular actions.

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [...] Sometimes when I'm interviewed, the interviewer either compliments me on my 'talent', my 'gift' or asks me how I discovered it. [...] I used to struggle to answer this politely, to explain that I didn't believe much in writing talent. People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct. (92)

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

You can capable of heroic deeds. Think well of yourself and act positively.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

You can change your life and make it what you want it to be, but only if you take consistent action.

You can decide to ignore the naysayers, put your head down and work on becoming the best you can.

You can’t shed ignorance unless you develop the habit to learn by observation and self-analysis.

You need to decide what your life is going to look like!

You only see what i choose to show you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

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.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms.

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.

As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.