Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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

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.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

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

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.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

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.

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

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

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.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

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 never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Life is but a collection of habits.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.