Habit Quotes

• Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Problems
  • Hunting
  • Alabama

• Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Good
  • Death
  • Habit

• People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Money
  • Decisions

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Habit

• So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Support

• ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Democracy

• Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Habit
  • Concealing
  • Nature Of Things

• My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

  

  Billy Boyd
  • Sleep
  • Habit

• Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Habit

• I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Habit

• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

  

  George Washington
  • May
  • Morning
  • Healthy

• 'The central defect of the human mind,' Custine said, 'is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.''But sometimes a very dangerous one.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Mind
  • Habit

• I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Bad
  • Doing

• All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Black
  • Lies
  • Lying

• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Habit
  • Actions

• What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Age
  • Passion
  • Desires

• I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us, neck and wrist. Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand. As we builded, stone by stoene, We must toil, unhelped, alone, Till the wall is overthrown.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Hand

• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Habit

• Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Done
  • Past
  • Present

• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Failure
  • Wise

• Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Money
  • Habit

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