Habits Quotes

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.