Habit Quotes

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.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of 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.

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.

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.

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.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

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.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.