Habit Quotes
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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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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'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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.
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It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.
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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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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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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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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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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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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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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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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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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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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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This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.
