Habit Quotes

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

I am not a creature of habit.

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

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

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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