Habit Quotes · Page 71

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

“Habits were hard to break. Habits born out of fear were nearly impossible to deny. It”

— Teresa Gabelman

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

— William Osler

“Habits are one of the ways the brain learns complex behaviors. Neuroscientists believe habits give us the ability to focus our attention…

— Nir Eyal

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down,…

— Corey Haim

Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,…

— Margaret Meagher

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie…

— George Berkeley

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long…

— Carl Andre

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits…

— Anonymous

Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed.…

— Ruby Dee

I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…

— Erasmus Darwin

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and…

— Alice Waters

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.…

— Alan Watts

I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same…

— Jake Paul

Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a…

— Orson Scott Card

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the…

— Booker T. Washington

“Habit is unrelenting collection of exercise and expertise is coming out of it sharpened”

— Olugbenga michael adepoju

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

— O. Henry

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

— Helen Rowland

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you…

— Burt Prelutsky

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

— Marilyn Monroe

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit…

— Tara Brach

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

— Walter Benjamin

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

“Openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to.”

— Veronica Roth

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt…

— Emily Bronte

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then…

— Mike Leigh

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.”

— Audre Lorde