Habit Quotes
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Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
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Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
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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.
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If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
