Habit Quotes · Page 61

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

— Hugh Dennis

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

— Samuel Johnson

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

— Sargent Shriver

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

— John Steinbeck

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

— Gautam Rode

Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad…

— Cory Barlog

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

— Anonymous

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word 'landmark' a bit too readily. I have been involved…

— David Olusoga

aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It…

— David Levithan

The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to…

— Neil Newhouse

There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious…

— T. S. Eliot

Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of…

— Shakti Gawain

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide…

— Charles Buxton

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means…

— Innocent of Alaska

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda…

— Gregory Maguire

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…

— Cassandra Clare

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.…

— Sam Abell

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key…

— Anonymous

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“He has a habit of runnng faster than he should and using his superior hearing when he should not.”

— J.M. Dain

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

— Ronald Reagan

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

— David Wolfe

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

— Boonaa Mohammed

I always carry snacks in my bag. It's a good habit to have now that I am a mom.

— Dana Bash

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we…

— A.M. Homes

Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned…

— Max Cavalera

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

— John Dryden

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them habits , a good…

— Margaret Atwood

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get…

— Charles Kettering

A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

— Shannon Sharpe

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

— Anonymous

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

— Dan Simmons

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

— Virginia Woolf