Habit Quotes

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.

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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.

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.

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.

Winning is a habit.

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.

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.

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.

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.