Habit Quotes

A habit does not a monk make.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

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

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

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

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

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

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

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

Habit is a great deadener.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.