Habit Quotes · Page 79

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

— Mark Twain

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

— John Adams

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

— Wilbur Mills

I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before…

— Maya Moore

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

“A person's bad habit is often misunderstood by close people, even those who are more prone to this habit.”

— Srinivas mishra

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on…

— Harold Innis

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself…

— Carolyn Wells

I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush…

— Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often,…

— Matthew Scully

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,…

— William Strunk, Jr

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees,…

— William Graham Sumner

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be…

— Richard Carmona

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there…

— Anderson Cooper

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of…

— Robert Greene

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…

— Charles Lyell

“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or…

— Octavia E. Butler

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its…

— James Allen

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly…

— Brigham Young

It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well…

— LaVell Edwards

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who…

— Newt Gingrich

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Grenville Kleiser

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

— Melina Matsoukas

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

— Tori Spelling

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

— Darren Hardy

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring…

— Socrates

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence…

— Napoleon Hill

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

— Og Mandino

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have…

— Katherine Waterston

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

— Victor Hugo

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a…

— John Dryden

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

— Christoffer Boe

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our…

— Nicholas Sparks

“A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.”

— Ralph Alfred Habas