Habit Quotes

• Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Habit

• The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Decision
  • Weakness
  • Encourage

• Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Life
  • Habit

• Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Habit
  • Dating

• So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Light
  • Habit

• Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Governments
  • Revelations
  • Publication

• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Virtue
  • Mask
  • Sarcasm

• What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Morning

• I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.

  

  Epictetus
  • Reality
  • Habit
  • All Things

• We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

  

  James Gleick
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Pet

• I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Scene
  • Bedroom
  • Rotten

• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Officers
  • Plus
  • Cattle

• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Parents

• Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Attention

• The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...

  

  Maimonides
  • Soul
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Life
  • Past
  • Happiness

• Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Beauty

• Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Desirable
  • Discontinued

• Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happy
  • Successful
  • Saying

• In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Habit

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