Habits Quote by David R Loy

“You act in certain ways because you have certain thoughts that over your lifetime have become habitual. Habitual patterns of thought and perception will…

— Martha Davis

“People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.”

— John Medina

“It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“Your inner nature is your kind nature, when you give unconditionally, when you are inspired or feel truly motivated and full of vitality”

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Persons in their most developed form are conscious, reflexive, embodied, self-transcending centers of subjective experience, durable identity, moral commitment, and social communication who—as the…

— Christian Smith

“Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes,…

— Emily Brontë

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

— B. F. Skinner

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable…

— Christos Yannaras

“the very notion of personality, which is what we are trying to get at here, seems to have very limited application to me and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits create character.”

— Matthew Kelly