Habit Quotes

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

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?

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.

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.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

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.

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

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

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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.