Habit Quotes · Page 54

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

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

— Epictetus

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

— Charles Darwin

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

— Tom Fitton

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that…

— Gertrude Atherton

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

— John Dewey

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

— Joyce Meyer

“the key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major tasks first…

— Jennifer April

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both…

— Isaiah Berlin

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious…

— Alcee Hastings

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained…

— Charles Darwin

“The teeny-weeny habit of finding constant fault with yourself -- often disguised as a never-ending quest for self-improvement -- gets in the…

— Catherine Carrigan

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make…

— Anonymous

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and…

— Keller Easterling

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the…

— William Ralph Inge

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude…

— Willa Cather

Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance…

— Stephen Covey

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the…

— Oswald Chambers

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

— Laozi

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

— Arthur Zajonc

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of…

— Chris Pratt

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a…

— Daniel Quinn

I do not condone smoking while pregnant or smoking - it's a dirty filthy habit.

— Kerry Katona

“Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.”

— Pearl Zhu

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the…

— Manning Marable

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

— Anonymous

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]

— Kerry Katona

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I…

— Lindsey Vonn

I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us.

— Ruth Westheimer

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

— Stan Getz

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the…

— Talib Kweli

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart,…

— Thomas Lickona