Habit Quotes · Page 28

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

— Anonymous

Music is not just love for me; it's a way of life, a habit.

— Jubin Nautiyal

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

— Desiderius Erasmus

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

— Charles C Noble

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

— George McGovern

“Decide to be happy under all conditions, let happiness be your habit.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

— Vince Lombardi

“How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?”

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

— Seth Godin

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

— Hugh Dennis

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

— Samuel Johnson

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

— Sargent Shriver

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

— John Steinbeck

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

— Gautam Rode

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

— Anonymous

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were…

— Anonymous

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit…

— Henepola Gunaratana

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow…

— Don McLean

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others,…

— Thrity Umrigar

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious…

— Og Mandino

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the…

— Aristotle

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my…

— Pete Hamill

The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody…

— Bill Rodgers

“It wasn’t the trip to Cairo that had caused the shift, scientists were convinced, or the divorce or desert trek. It was…

— Charles Duhigg

The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except…

— James P. Comer

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…

— Erasmus Darwin

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run…

— Kalle Lasn

“A habit is when not doing an action causes a bit of pain.”

— Nir Eyal

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

— Jon Stewart

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

— Anonymous

I know that to go on, I'll break you, my habit!

— Silverstein

A habit is only a habit until you can observe it. And then it's a choice.

— Insane & Insomniac

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

— Maria Mitchell

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

— Arthur Koestler