Habit Quotes
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
Joel Osteen
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Townsend Harris
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Loretta Young
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.
Colin Powell
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Clark
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins
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.
Helen Keller
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham