Best 910 quotes in «habit quotes» category

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.

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

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 but a collection of habits.

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

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

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

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

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

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

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

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

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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

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

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 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 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.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

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.

My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

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.