Habit Quotes · Page 82

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

— L. Bruce Archer

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

— W. H. Auden

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

— Ellen Gilchrist

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with…

— John Toshack

With motivation you find way to go for your endeavour & gradually it develops into habit which keeps you going.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

— Dan Gable

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…

— Charlotte Mason

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat…

— Vir Das

Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior,…

— Charles Duhigg

“The habit of praying before my meal trains me in a way of being-in-the-world. It reminds me that my personal experience is…

— Tish Harrison Warren

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity.…

— Steve Goodier

Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted…

— Marni Jackson

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally…

— George Santayana

If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge…

— Catharine Beecher

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of…

— George Santayana

The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force…

— Edward Thomson

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy…

— Edmund White

I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up…

— Andy Murray

“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;…

— Jonathan Edwards

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of…

— Edmund Burke

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

— Robert Benchley

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

— Sam Snead

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a…

— Warren Adler

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do…

— Earl Nightingale

“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a…

— Frances Mayes

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

— Aristotle

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely…

— Francesco Guicciardini

“It was a bad habit of hers … looking for safety in places where there wasn’t any.”

— Lisa Kleypas

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

— Napoleon Hill

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

— Robert Stacy McCain

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

— Anonymous

“Do you always worry about everyone else before yourself?" "I don't know. I suppose." "It's a miserable habit...”

— Anne Blankman

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

— Pope Francis

Some people are in the habit of complaining about everything; even about the noise made by opportunity that knocks on the door.

— Vikrant Parsai