Quotes About Habit

Motivation is the result, not the instigator of change. Action comes first. Then, the action becomes a habit. From the habit, you see results or get rewards, which eventually lead to motivation.

At lunch he invariably downed a bottle of champagne, or brandy if he was in a different mood, and by afternoon he was almost invariably drunk.

she was counting the brushstrokes when she brushed her teeth — on the rare days that she did brush her teeth.

Beware of anything that you hear yourself saying often.

It was just part of her nature, along with her habit of wanting to know what was behind the appearances that other people put on when they went out the door in the morning, and suspecting their motivations, and questioning their intentions.

But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, "Isn't it dangerous?" Iris said, "I don't know. I guess it could be, if you're afraid. I'm not because it's just something I've always done. I mean, if you live in it you aren't scared of it.

A matter of habit, didn't Mr. Sanger think? After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher's desk instead of learning how to do the math.

For all our penny-wisdom,'" he said, "'for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

I swore never to use the emoticon ever… until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first :) and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, :) became a regular staple of my daily correspondence

When the time comes, your best bet is to get her into a routine that makes her comfortably drowsy.

I saw the camel put on its shirt An leave without tears for Mecca With a thousand and one Sand sellers and Dark crowds like scaly dragons But i could not follow them For sloth won out Against my ardour And daily habit resumed Its disjointed toe-dance

Es siempre la absurda costumbre de dar más importancia a las personas que a los sentimientos. No encuentro otra palabra. Quiero decir: más importancia al instrumento que a la música.

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit.

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice.

la costumbre, esa lenta e implacable apisonadora que convierte lo inadecuado en lo habitual.

consider that you can commit to little as five minutes a day. The highest form of discipline is consistency: powerful transformation can come from regularity.

If I'm kept here much longer, I think I'll have to have another tantrum. They're certainly more satisfying than I ever suspected. I can see why a person would get in the habit of it.

You'll get to the point where you react differently when you see food you know you shouldn't eat.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

ready to greet the postman, always opening the door to take in her mail as if her letter box had been sealed up

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

La pereza no es más que el hábito de descansar antes de cansarte

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.