Habits Quotes

• I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Faith
  • Change
  • Creatures

• The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Change
  • Enemy
  • Civilization

• Life will go better for you the less you’re bothered by people and their dumb habits.)

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Death
  • Support

• Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • People
  • Reason
  • Keep

• The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Habits
  • Physical Presence

• Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in the greater fool 4. Run with the herd. 5. Overgeneralize 6. Be trendy 7. Play with other people's money

  

  Paul Krugman
  • World
  • Rule
  • Markets

• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  

  Elisabeth Marbury
  • Pleasure
  • Accepted
  • Moods

• To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Habits
  • Disciplined
  • Manuscripts

• Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change in Peter's habits would make his wife's life radiant. But they all lived blindly, on, each day a day of emptiness, each of those precious days, so crowded with opportunities, and possibilities, and unheeded blessings, and presently life would be behind them, and their chances gone for ever.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Change
  • Ideas
  • Difference

• It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Regret
  • Christ
  • Wheels

• Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

  

  Arthur Zajonc
  • Change
  • Space
  • Habits

• Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Acts

• The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

  

  Susan Powter
  • Change
  • Day
  • Habits

• It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Girl
  • Habits
  • Teenage

• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Advice
  • Create
  • Habits

• I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

  

  Artemas Ward
  • Good
  • Politician
  • Habits

• Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Game
  • Actions
  • Habits

• Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Habits
  • Tablecloth
  • Forrest Gande

• I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

  

  Steve Truglia
  • Enemy
  • Army
  • Habits

• Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Support
  • Relationships
  • Clutter

• Old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Hard
  • Impossible
  • Break

• Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are “sticky” and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Help
  • Develop
  • Symptoms

• Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

  

  Will Durant
  • Conscience
  • Flag
  • Compulsion

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