Habit Quotes
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As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
Neil MacGregor
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He doesn't seem to be able to stay out of trouble. I think he'll get out of that habit, though. I think the coaches let him know that he'll stay out of trouble or he won't be around long.
Bud Adams
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Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
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A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make.
Boonaa Mohammed
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
Gautama Buddha
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
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I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
Aidan Gillen
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
Miguel de Unamuno
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I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.
Nickelson Wooster
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A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
P. J. O'Rourke