Habit Quotes
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A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.
Carl Holmes
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
W. H. Auden
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
Albert Camus
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
Jane Austen
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It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.
Bill Sharman
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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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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Loretta Young
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young
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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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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
John Locke
Nazareth
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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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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
George Eliot
