Habit Quotes
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It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.
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If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
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Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
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Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
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No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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.
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The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
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Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
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Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
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If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous 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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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
