Habit famous quotes

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
-- A.C. Grayling

#Wise #World #Habit

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Inspirational #Habit #Your Future

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
-- Abigail Adams

#Challenges #Mind #Habit

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Habit #Disappear

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

#Want #Habit #Productive

Your character is the harvest of your habits.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Character #Habit #Harvest

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Mind #France #Habit

Divorce transforms habit into drama.
-- Al Alvarez

#Drama #Divorce #Habit

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
-- Alan Paton

#Habit

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Despair #Habit

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Heaven #Habit #Redress

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
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Knowing #Way #Habit

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Animal #Organization #Habit

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

#Men #Fellow Man #Habit

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.
-- Allan Houston

#Class #Way #Habit

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Iron #Habit

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#And Love #Habit

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
-- Alton Brown

#Habit

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Consistency #Habit #Predicaments

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
-- Andre Maurois

#Character #Destiny #Habit

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.
-- Angie Sage

#Work Out #Habit

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
-- Ann Voskamp

#Joy #Thanks #Habit

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Want #Habit #Wells

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene

#Memories #Hands #Habit

Vices are often habits rather than passions.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Passion #Vices #Habit

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
-- Ariel Gore

#Writing #Habit #Given

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
-- Aristophanes

#Habit #Crabs #Walks

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
-- Aristotle

#Littles #Our Actions #Habit

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
-- Aristotle

#Habit #Vary

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
-- Aristotle

#Habit #Results

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.
-- Artemas Ward

#Politician #Habit

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Revenge #Consciousness #Habit

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Television #Habit #Reactions

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Kind #Habit #Used

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Habit #Not Afraid

To make headway, improve your head.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Habit

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Writing #Habit #Latter

Good habits were the easiest ones to break ...
-- Barbara Seranella

#Habit #Break #Good Habits

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
-- Ben Gibbard

#Want #Habit #Starting

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Listening #Unions #Habit

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
-- Berthold Auerbach

#Mother #Good Mother #Habit

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
-- Bertrand Piccard

#Habit #Reacting #Interest

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Privilege #Revolutionary #Habit

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Addiction #Income #Habit

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
-- Billy Boyd

#Sleep #Habit #Whistling

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Nature #Firsts #Habit

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make
-- Boonaa Mohammed

#Choices #Habit #Bad Habits

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
-- Bret Harte

#Arsenic #Sticks #Habit

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean...
-- Brian Jacques

#Father #Mean #Habit

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
-- Brian Tracy

#Success #People #Habit

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
-- Brian Tracy

#Practice #Mastery #Habit

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
-- Brian Tracy

#Talking #Listening #Habit

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit
-- Bruce Lee

#Going The Extra Mile #Habit #Miles

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
-- Bryan Adams

#Habit #Circumstances

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.
-- C. J. Mahaney

#Sacrifice #Habit #Lifelong

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.
-- C. J. Mahaney

#Important #Habit #Daily Habits

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

#People #Excuse #Habit

You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt

#People #Way #Habit

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
-- Catherine McCormack

#Doing Nothing #Becoming #Habit

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.
-- Celeste Ng

#Habit

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Sacred #Affection #Habit

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Habit

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Believe #People #Habit

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.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Responsibility #Habit #Easier

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Real #Believe #Habit

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Real #Habit #Insight

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Focus #Habit

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Routine #Rewards #Habit

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Golden #Habit #Golden Rule

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Habit

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Creating #Sparks #Habit

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Habit #Easier #Good Habits

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Inspirational #Character #Habit

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

#Strategy #Habit #Achieve

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
-- Charles Peguy

#Sin #Habit #Salvation

Lookin' back is a bad habit.
-- Charles Portis

#Habit #Bad Habits

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Growing #Beard #Habit

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Doors #Reason #Habit

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

#Sides #Breaking Down #Habit

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
-- Chauncey Wright

#Moving #Stones #Habit

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.
-- Chester A. Arthur

#Self #Order #Habit

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.
-- Chip Conley

#Curiosity #Wonder #Habit

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
-- Chris LeDoux

#Cafes #Kind #Habit

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.
-- Christoffer Boe

#Trying #Obsession #Habit

Changing people's habits is very expensive
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#People #Habit

If you want to change your art, change your habits.
-- Clement Greenberg

#Art #Want #Habit

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
-- Clive James

#Triumph #Habit

Habit is the daily battleground of character
-- Dan Coats

#Character #Habit

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Habit #Shackles

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
-- David Gerrold

#Peculiar #Sometimes #Habit

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
-- David Lodge

#Desire #Habit

People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
-- David Pogue

#People #Google #Habit

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!
-- David Suzuki

#Shapes #Canada #Habit

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
-- Deborah Norville

#Grateful #Three #Habit

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
-- Denis Waitley

#Truth Is #Habit #Break

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
-- Denis Waitley

#Bed #Easy #Habit

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!
-- Denise Austin

#Patterns #Action #Habit

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!
-- Dhirubhai Ambani

#Thinking #Problem #Habit

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
-- Dick Van Dyke

#Habit #Retired

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
-- Dick Van Dyke

#Television #Habit