Habit Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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I've always been worried about being late for things, so I'm 30 - 40 minutes early for everything. That's a habit I'll keep going.
Kim Matula
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Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.
Jack Gilbert
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
Albert Camus
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I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.
William Mulock
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
William Wordsworth
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
Charles Dickens
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The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.
Stephen Covey
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
Hippocrates
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Technically, I could have said “journalist” or “writer.” However, admitting to these professions is like uttering a special secret password to Travel Hell. No one wants journalists or writers in their country because they have a habit of writing things, and sometimes these things are even true.
Adam Fletcher
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I'm very much a creature of habit.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
Virginia Woolf
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Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.
Mike Hawkins
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If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.
Plutarch
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
Albert Camus
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Make happiness a daily habit!
Katrina Mayer
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
Eliot Sumner
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In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.
Eric Newby
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
Seth Godin
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So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.
C. J. Mahaney
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If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
Stephen Covey