Habit Quotes
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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.
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I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
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The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?
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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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To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
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My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
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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 was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
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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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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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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.
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This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
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They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
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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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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
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One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.
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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.
