Habits Quotes · Page 117

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

— J. C. Ryle

“As soon as you realize that habits may be reformed, you have both the freedom and the obligation to do so”

— Habits Doctor

“Always ignore hateful attitude and rude behavior of the people. They are powerless without your response.”

— Bushra Zarrar Rana

“Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life.”

— Bryant McGill

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good…

— Umar

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

— Alexander Elder

“No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

“The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.”

— Peter Hessler

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think…

— Nigel Hawthorne

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits…

— Jack LaLanne

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever…

— Robert Metcalfe

I socially have one bad habit which is I meet people, hear their name, see their face and minutes later I have…

— Kyle MacDonald

We've both got a million bad habits to kick. Not sleeping is one. We're biting our nails. Youre biting my lip. Im…

— Lorde

I like things my own way. I like the window open at night, for instance, and I'm too intolerant to adjust to…

— Roddy Llewellyn

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

— J. C. Watts

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and…

— Gail Simmons

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating…

— Steven Schier

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come…

— Paulo Coelho

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of…

— James E. Faust

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for…

— Byron Katie

“She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now.…

— Jane Smiley

'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a…

— Mary H.K. Choi

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

— Charlotte Mason

“My point is when the odds are fifty-fifty in an area of your life that matters, you change your behavior.”

— Craig Groeschel

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

— Shoshana Zuboff

The thought of a brand new week just makes me feel so sick. Sick of school, sick of routines, sick of life .

— Anonymous

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best…

— Ben Gibbard

You cant change your future. But you can change your habits. And surely your habits will change your future.

— Marcopolo

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

— Jane Goodall

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

— Stewart Butterfield

“The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.”

— Anonymous

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

— Tori Spelling

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

— Toni Morrison

For knowledge you must have a desire and habit of learning. Along with knowledge, learning makes one humble.

— Anil Sinha

If the criticism is unjustified, then we are rewarded for our patience and good behavior in not retaliating.

— Anonymous

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

— Andrew Greeley