Quotes About Habit

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

Pues la costumbre, verdaderamente es una violenta y traidora institutriz. Poco a poco y con disimulo, establece en nosotros el pie de su autoridad; pero tras este suave y humilde comienzo, una vez asentado y plantado con ayuda del tiempo, pronto nos revela un talante furioso y tiránico contra el que no podemos ya ni alzar la mirada.

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.

after thirty years' hostile fellowship with Collie, of course she did quite well understand that collie had a habit of skipping several stages in the logical sequence of her thoughts and would utter apparently disconnected statements, especially when confused by unfamiliar subject or the presence of a man

When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is but a step away.

You get used to being evil.

But I couldn't just be angry at her. Obviously I wanted to scream at her and set her whole enclave on fire, but that was just habit.

both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.

Writing has become a habit with you.

The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.

It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.

five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is, finally, accepted and acted upon by the subconscious mind

I am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!