Habit Quotes · Page 72

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a…

— Greg Plitt

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

— Edward Abbey

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

— Jerome Hines

As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.

— Hippocrates

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

— Gautama Buddha

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

— Anonymous

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

— Anonymous

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and…

— Randall Jarrell

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,…

— Theodore Zeldin

As guilty and fun as it is to go through a drive-thru and get a cheeseburger or whatever, I just feel like…

— Julianne Hough

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the…

— Anthony Trollope

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an…

— Bertrand Piccard

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring…

— Sara Zarr

Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit…

— Anonymous

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands,…

— Margaret Atwood

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common…

— Viggo Mortensen

Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands…

— Elisabeth Marbury

We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask…

— Ambrose

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that…

— Aristotle

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is…

— Jonah Lehrer

I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have…

— Ben Gibbard

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each…

— Philip Roth

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

— Joe Paterno

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

— George D. Prentice

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

— Radhanath Swami

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

— Jasper Johns

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

— Oliver Burke

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by…

— Ugo Betti

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

— William Shakespeare

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

— Grenville Kleiser

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it…

— Alison Lurie

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

— Radhanath Swami

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald