Quotes about habit

Little choices determine habitHabit carves and molds characterWhich makes the big decisions.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Life is the sum of habits, only occasionally disturbed by a thought.

By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.

Custom is second nature and no less powerful.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

Habit is a great deadener.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

As the saying goes- “Habit trumps desire”. If you are a writer, you have to be writing. Write everyday. Set targets and meet them. Keep reading, keep learning, keep growing.Do not try to be a person you are not. Great writing is genuine and true. Remember to have the time of your life while at it :-)

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

Discipline is needed in our eating habit.

You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked.Falling for you, Amarissa thought.

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins,And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.'The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens;The ladies went by me like snow on the wind.I charmed and I cheated, dece

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more.

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body's natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon it by others or by himself will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time. This may happen without any attempt to undergo an elaborate system of self-discipline

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in t

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and delight), perceptions (you understand your little children better than they understand themselves), choices (you choose to get out of bed and go to the children's room even when you'd much rather not), and thoughts (you think differently, more thoroughly and carefully, about your children than about anyone e

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.