Habits Quotes · Page 109

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

— Anonymous

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

— Mark Twain

Try to pretend that you are happy. Slowly it becomes your habit. And finally it becomes your character.

— Aldyna Threesya

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

— Henry Van Dyke

“Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said.”

— Jim Butcher

Why do you choke my habit of living.. I am mannerless, I am from that street, where there is no shame..

— Yashraj Suman

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

— Anonymous

I am into my routine and I believe in the following: exercise, adequate amount of sleep and a good diet.

— Joe Maddon

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. R.…

— Mary Wilder Tileston

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to…

— Neil Blumenthal

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

— Gautama Buddha

“Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV,…

— Randall Wright

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

“Heavy smokers and drinkers do not alter their habits, they simply spend more of their income on the taxes punishing their bad…

— Andrew Heaton

“What gets recognized gets repeated; what gets celebrated becomes a habit. Individual recognition and group celebration fuel high performance. Make an effort…

— Leslie A. Yerkes

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“Silence is an easy habit. But it doesn't come naturally. Silence has to be cultivated, enforced by implication and innuendo, looks and…

— Kristen Iversen

When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some…

— Marshall Goldsmith

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes…

— Elizabeth Janeway

As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,…

— Barack Obama

I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who…

— Patrick Fabian

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

— Stephen Covey

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

— Jeannette Walls

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

— Geoff Hoon

“management attitudes and behaviors. Most, if not all, adolescent and adult eating disorders, obsessive”

— Ellyn Satter

If governments want to encourage good citizenship, they should try making the desired behavior more fun.

— Richard Thaler

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through

— Shannon Miller

“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.”

— Albert Camus

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

— Robin Williams

You and only you have held in our own attitudes and behavior. Do you use it to become negative and weak.

— Innah Delos Angeles

“It was an odd habit, I thought, this insistence on driving a car in cities with public transportation.”

— Sujata Massey

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

— Richard Ayoade

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

— Henry David Thoreau

A perfect person doesn't OBSESS, doesn't have bad habits, doesn't cry, doesn't fail and doesn't exist...

— Suman Rai

I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

— Jack Nicklaus