Habit Quotes

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

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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

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 should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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

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

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

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

Character is long-standing habit.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

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.