Habit Quotes · Page 4

It's hard to break a habit.

— Latto

Habits form a second nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Profit is not an event. It's a habit.

— Mike Michalowicz

Habit had made the custom.

— Ovid

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

— William Wordsworth

habit is our idea of eternity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Pursuits become habits.

— Ovid

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

— Hakim Bey

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

— Margaret Deland

The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits.

— Vilna Gaon

If you forgive too many times people will get in the habit of hurting you.

— Wandini

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

— Helen McCloy

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

— Daniel Libeskind

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

— Serena Williams

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

— Chinua Achebe

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

— Larry Brooks

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

— Henry Ford

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

— David Ryan

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of…

— Ann Brashares

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

— John Webster

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way

— Rollo May

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit…

— Isabelle Adjani

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week,…

— Dennis Miller

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates…

— Paul J. Meyer

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy,…

— Andrew Jackson

Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites…

— Anne Tyler

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…

— John Herschel

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…

— Edward Sapir

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few…

— Frank Pierson

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since…

— Henry Taylor

Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell…

— Charles Adams

It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in…

— Chinua Achebe

“ Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig,…

— Jöns Jacob Berzelius

“I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light…

— Wallace Stegner

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,…

— Lord Chesterfield

Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced…

— Joe Klein