Habit Quotes

Character is long-standing habit.

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

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.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

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

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

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.

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

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

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.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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.

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

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.