Quotes
Quotes about Habit
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same wayâby finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
