Habits Quotes · Page 110

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

— Sean Covey

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

— Peter R. Mansoor

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

— Mark Twain

Merits or qualifications of the man seen in his behavior,it is true, then the certificate can be forged.

— Mak_786

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.

— Eric Harvey

“Just as an exercise habit will change your body, a mindfulness habit will literally reshape your mind.”

— S.J. Scott

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

— Frederick Lenz

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly…

— Dale Carnegie

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the…

— George Moore

“I guess I forgot we were going out tonight." "We always go out on Fridays." "It's Thursday, Alvis." "You are so tied…

— Jess Walter

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do…

— Brion James

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to…

— Michael Phelps

“you are alone, Chinaski, and below the stage the seats are empty. the theatre is dark. why do you keep acting? what…

— Charles Bukowski

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and…

— Marcel Proust

Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul…

— Andrew Tudor

“Once negotiations begin, nine-tenths of the battle is over. The balance of power is dictated by brand loyalty, store loyalty, shopping habits,…

— Greg Thain

We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have…

— Marianne Williamson

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering…

— John Dewey

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Amazon could use the data it has about buying behavior to help make these ads much more effective," said Karsten Weide, an…

— Anonymous

“I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins…

— L.M. Montgomery

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

— Buzz Osborne

“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

— Colum McCann

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

— Chen Shui-bian

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

— Vernon Howard

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

— Andrew VanWyngarden

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

— Louis de Bernieres

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

— Nicholas Kristof

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

— SZA

“Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decisions.”

— Christine Zolendz

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

— Aristotle

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

— Abraham Maslow

You can never satisfy people by your property . so , you can attract their satisfaction by your behavior

— Anonymous

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

— Ovid

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

— Richard Branson