“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Forming a good habit early in life is very important as it goes on to become your nature. — Rekha Copy Share Image
“It was a habit—that’s what it was called—not a veil. But then they kicked the habit.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals.… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“By habit, she looked round the room she sat in. Anything she could do to it had been done; what it could… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image