Habit Quotes · Page 60

I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

— Jim Goad

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

— Alan Paton

“I can’t prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit.”

— Joan Ambu

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading…

— Anonymous

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

— Voltaire

“Happiness is a habit,” her mom would say, “and the more it’s practiced, the easier it comes.”

— Victor Methos

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of…

— Adam Conover

We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation…

— Ellen Goodman

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of…

— Eric Allin Cornell

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts…

— Salvador Dali

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly…

— Judith Martin

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special…

— John Bright

I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating…

— Rajneesh

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will…

— Thorstein Veblen

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a…

— Alice Hoffman

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another…

— Amy Tan

By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body,…

— Harry J. Anslinger

When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night…

— Lance Morrow

All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,…

— Richard G. Scott

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be…

— Daniel Alarcon

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits…

— David Mamet

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear,…

— William Shakespeare

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.…

— Hannah More

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

— Anonymous

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

— Jeff Bezos

Interrupting people mid-sentence is my worst habit. I cant help myself. I get overexcited in the middle of a conversation and I…

— Mary McCartney

“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.”

— Charles Duhigg

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

— Isaac Asimov

“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.”

— Thomas Hardy

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

— William H. Gass

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

— Bharati Mukherjee

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

— Adrian Grenier

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

— Charles Dickens

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that…

— Jane Asher

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

— David Hume

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

— Thomas Browne

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

— Napoleon Hill

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking…

— Samuel Smiles