Habit Quotes · Page 55

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good…

— Umar

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with…

— Marcel Duchamp

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,…

— Maya Angelou

“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.”

— Marcel Proust

“If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is…

— Kenneth Schwarz

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

— Max Irons

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

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

— W. H. Auden

For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God.…

— Ignatius of Antioch

The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in…

— Max Stirner

“users also increase their dependency on habit-forming products by storing value in them — further reducing the likelihood of switching to an alternative.”

— Nir Eyal

The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego,…

— Robert Thurman

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.…

— Erin Morgenstern

I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk…

— Pete Newell

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee…

— Samuel Beckett

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take…

— Seneca the Younger

Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all…

— Tom Chappell

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm…

— Alexander Gustafsson

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.…

— Og Mandino

Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think that's what's happened with a lot of people in films these days: they're so enamored with the process, whether it's…

— Daniel Myrick

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…

— Adam Smith

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the…

— Og Mandino

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

— Ellen Gilchrist

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

— Charlotte Mason

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

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Dan Gable

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

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

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

— Frances Mayes

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

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Warren Adler

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Robert Benchley

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Francesco Guicciardini

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

— Aristotle