Habit Quotes

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

Habit is a great deadener.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Character is long-standing habit.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

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

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

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

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

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

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

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.