Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

To get more money to spend on yourself - don't buy on credit!

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

The word hygge has been sifted to the surface in recent years but the concept is not new. It is a practice as old as sitting around a fire or sharing food with a friend. Words emerge from culture, history, topography and place. They're formed by time and habit and are passed from one generation to the next through stories, rituals and values.

Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.

Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.

Watching TV together does not count as dedicated family time!

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death. ("Hard Candy")

We are all born with a natural curiosity, we want to learn. Knowing that, make learning a lifelong habit.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

We lived in an age where fake is a must.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

We must experience Heaven on earth; May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

We only irritate ourselves when we scratch at an itch that no longer exists.

We want a money-back guarantee before we take a step of obedience, but that eliminates faith from the equation. Sometimes we need to take a flying leap of faith. We need to step into the conflict without knowing if we can resolve it. We need to share our faith without knowing how our friends will react to it. We need to pray for a miracle without knowing how God will answer. We need to put ourselves in a situation that activates a spiritual gift we've never exercised before. And we need to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. If we want to discover new lands, we've got to lose sight of the shore. We've got to leave the Land of Familiarity behind. We've got to sail past the predictable. And when we do, we develop a spiritual hunger for the unprecedented and lose our appetite for the habitual. We also get a taste of God's favor.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.

We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?

When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

When they cut me open, I want them to say, “Damn! This woman ate well.

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit.

When you develop a regular habit of going to a temple, library or a gymnasium, you start liking these activities as your thoughts are transformed. You would also undergo similar changes, if you start visiting brothels regularly.

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

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.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You only see what i choose to show you.

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

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

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.

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

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