Habit Quotes

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

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

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Habit is stronger than reason.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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

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.