Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Our lives change when our habits change.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!

Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.