Habit Quotes · Page 32

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

— William Shakespeare

If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.

— Chris Weidman

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

— Lou Williams

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

— Bill Capodagli

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

— Larry Holmes

“Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.”

— Aldous Huxley

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.

— William Mulock

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

— Marcel Proust

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around…

— Hannah Fry

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

— Norman Vincent Peale

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

— Eric Nicol

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does,…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

— H. Rider Haggard

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir…

— Plutarch

Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated…

— Henry David Thoreau

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working…

— Alan Rickman

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use…

— John Dewey

The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully…

— Charles Duhigg

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit…

— Marie Curie

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are…

— Oscar Wilde

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police…

— Vermin Supreme

The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas…

— Edward Bernays

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,…

— Jane Addams

I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to…

— Albert Einstein

“Acknowledging that we are all churned up is the first and most difficult step in any practice. Without compassionate recognition that we…

— Pema Chodron

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their…

— John Ruskin

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

— Harvey Mackay

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

— William James

Create healthy habits not restrictions

— Kevi

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

— Marva Collins

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

— Publilius Syrus

“Perfectionism is an ugly habit until you get results.”

— Bryan Way

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson