Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

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

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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 happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Our lives change when our habits change.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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