Habitual Quotes

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.