Habit Quotes · Page 45

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

— Charles Duhigg

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

— David Suzuki

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

— Octavia Butler

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

— Napoleon Hill

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

— Aristotle

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

— Rene Descartes

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

— Artemas Ward

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

— Erica Jong

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

— Geneen Roth

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

— Boyd K. Packer

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will…

— Townsend Harris

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are who we are because of three things, the choices we make, the habits we keep and the disciplines we have.

— Ricardo Housham

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

— Ted Cruz

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a…

— Anonymous

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother…

— William Goldman

We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow…

— Pope Francis

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is…

— Ignatius of Antioch

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are…

— James Gleick

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are…

— Seth

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they…

— Shirley Jones

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you…

— Shel Silverstein

“The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until…

— J.R. Rim

[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of…

— John Burroughs

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits…

— Pema Chodron

Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords…

— Ludwig von Mises

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is…

— George Washington

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal…

— Walter Scott

The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would…

— Francis Grund

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit…

— Charles Duhigg

Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.

— William James

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

— Jonathan Vilma

“Keep breathing,’ I said. ‘It’s a habit you don’t want to break.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

— Lucas Hedges

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

“Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.”

— Brian Tracy