Habit Quotes
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We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
Earl Nightingale
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My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
William James
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
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If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.
Anna Sewell
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
William H. Gass
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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
Katharine Lee Bates
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To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
Epictetus
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If these gouaches live at all, it is because they are true, they derive from life. They are born of the unknown – and not of habit or know-how, or intention, or of some recipe.. ..there comes a time when serious work is no longer an effort. When demanding work of that kind no longer tires you.
Bram van Velde
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The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Brian Tracy
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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
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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
D. H. Lawrence
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I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
Catherine McCormack
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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
Eric Allin Cornell
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
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The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.
Li Yuanchao
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If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
Marianne Williamson
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We are mere bundles of habits.
William James
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche