Habit Quotes · Page 23

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

— Mick Jagger

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

— Winston Churchill

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

— Pearl Cleage

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

— Ovid

“Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.”

— Anonymous

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

— Samuel Beckett

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

— Rick Warren

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

— Andy Law

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by habit.

— Anonymous

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

— Charles Duhigg

“We cut ourselves. Not by accident, we do it purposely, and regularly, because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has…

— Shelly Stoehr

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

— George Iles

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

— Geneen Roth

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

— Erica Jong

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

— Michel de Montaigne

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with…

— Viggo Mortensen

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp…

— Rollo May

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened…

— James Patterson

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a…

— Hannah Fry

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the…

— Sigmund Freud

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,…

— Jacob Bronowski

There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could…

— Lorrie Moore

“Every single morning we awake from our rest to a day that has never existed before. A day with the latent possibility…

— Anne Berube Ph.D

Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man…

— Lin Yutang

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Present­ly, when the strain re­laxed, Blore said: 'There are habits and habits! Mr. Lom­bard takes a re­volver to out-​of-​the-way places, right enough,…

— Agatha Christie

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us…

— Richard Mitchell

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

— Robert Rhodes James

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

— Terry Pratchett

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

— William Faulkner

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

— C. S. Lewis

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

— Seth Godin

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

— Kin Hubbard

“The habit of knowledge is not human but devine.”

— Heraclitus

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

— Peter Ustinov