Habit Quotes
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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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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
Gautama Buddha
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Charles Jaffe
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
William Wordsworth
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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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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.
Joe Morton
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It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
Burt Prelutsky
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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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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
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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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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
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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
Berthold Auerbach
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
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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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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
William Feather
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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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Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.
Charles Adams
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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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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Edwin Paxton Hood