Habits Quotes · Page 104

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

— Anonymous

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

— David Hume

Know the difference between instinct and habits. Trust your instincts but question your habits

— Joe Mehl

“Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction.”

— Susan C. Young

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

— Gary Yourofsky

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

— Louis de Bernieres

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

— Nell Scovell

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

— Rohini Nilekani

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life.…

— Henry Adams

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

“Anna was too old to believe that people always lied for a reason. Mostly they lied because it was easy, felt good,…

— Nevada Barr

Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to…

— Arielle Ford

“Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.”

— Helen Simonson

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that…

— Mignon McLaughlin

“For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs…

— Barbara Pym

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior…

— Frank Herbert

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I…

— Rodney Atkins

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines…

— Clifford Geertz

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one…

— Kevin Keck

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's…

— Majora Carter

“I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it…

— Raymond Chandler

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues…

— Charles Duhigg

“But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It’s…

— Jeffrey Bernstein

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

— Henry Edward Manning

If only eating is a good habit, then everyone is healthy.

— Alon Calinao Dy

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

— Michael Lewis

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

— Jake Busey

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

— Charles Duhigg

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

— Nadya Suleman

When something becomes routine, you feel out of place once its gone.

— Anonymous

The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

— Jerry Bridges

“Old habits die hard, and sometimes the toughest addictions to shake are the ones that control our hearts.”

— Dannika Dark

“Thinking drives behaviors. Behaviors drive action. Action drives results. No tool can fix poor thinking.”

— Jamie Flinchbaugh

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

— Pythagoras

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

— Jerome Bruner

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

— Maria Mitchell

Failure is faced by those who lack determination and has a habit of making excuses.

— Anurag Prakash Ray