Habits Quotes · Page 124

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by habit.

— Anonymous

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

— George Iles

There are reasons for bad behavior, there are no excuses for bad behavior.

— Katherine Coggin

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

— Charles Duhigg

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

— Erica Jong

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

— John Hickenlooper

I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.

— Johnny Lever

“Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment…

— Rebecca Eanes

Im losing myself trying to compete with everyone else instead of just being me, don't know where to turn, ive been stuck…

— Anonymous

I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little…

— Simon Bird

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune…

— Thomas Jefferson

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

— Edward Bernays

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't…

— Lucian Freud

In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be…

— Eric Newby

“Do not chase happiness. Instead, define success for yourself; then go out and live it. Be unapologetic in your commitment and honorable…

— Steve Maraboli

“we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. This is why, as we’ll discuss later, one of the fastest…

— Stephen M.R. Covey

“It was agreeable to her, the smell of tobacco. It was part of her knowledge of his body. It was the aura…

— Don DeLillo

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing…

— Koren Zailckas

“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of…

— Erik Pevernagie

It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the…

— Wendell Pierce

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up,…

— Booker T. Washington

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are…

— Irwin Shaw

I have a habit of telling people 'I'm fine' when I'm actually breaking down inside.

— Anonymous

Treat people as if their behavior is as it should be, and then they will start to meet their true potential.

— Melchor Lim

“It’s not routine that’s the problem. I’m simply not happy.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Nobody can be too careful about their habits of speech.”

— T.H. White

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

— Bill Watterson

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

— Boyd K. Packer

“Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.”

— Gregory A. Boyd

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

— Lana Wood

“Take the time to think. Get into the regular habit of personal introspection.”

— Robin S. Sharma

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

— Ted Nugent

Do not let the behavior of other destroy your inner peace

— Alexandria Watson

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“The only way to determine genuine motivation and/or intent is to observe the behavior of an individual.”

— Rollo Tomassi

“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.”

— Flannery O'Connor

We are who we are because of three things, the choices we make, the habits we keep and the disciplines we have.

— Ricardo Housham

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

— Ted Cruz