Habit Quotes · Page 75

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits but ultimately she is a MOTHER and we should respect her.

— Anonymous

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

— Abigail Van Buren

“even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.”

— Edwin G. Burrows

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

— Anonymous

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the…

— Paul Gauguin

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

— Michael Ondaatje

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

— Mick Jagger

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

— Ambrose Bierce

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing…

— Oscar Wilde

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what…

— Victoria Pendleton

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes,…

— Charles Hazlewood

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does…

— Aristotle

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are…

— Amos Oz

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and…

— Martin Seligman

If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal…

— Howard Gardner

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

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit…

— Epictetus

Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in…

— Edward Gibbon

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Buxton

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would…

— Muriel Spark

In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion…

— Twyla Tharp

... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll…

— Brad Paisley

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

— Loretta Young

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid…

— Marina Abramovic

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

— Milan Kundera

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

— David Hume

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

— Louis Kronenberger

“This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit

— David Starr Jordan

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

— Dean Acheson

“Rest isn’t about stepping back; it’s about stepping forward with energy. Build it into your day, one small habit at a time.”

— Felecia Etienne

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be…

— Dave Ramsey

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

— Marilyn Monroe

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.

— Wayne Dyer

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

— Lin Yutang

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

— William James

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

— Norman Vincent Peale