Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

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

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

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 will form good habits and become their slaves.

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.

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

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

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Life is but a collection of habits.