Habit Quotes

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I am a creature of habit.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Habit is ten times nature.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

A habit does not a monk make.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

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

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.