Quotes About Habit

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

the wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny 'Mother Superior' because ay the length ay time he'd hud his habit.

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

Fue lectora voraz desde muy corta edad, con los peligros que esa costumbre conlleva.

The path to addiction is straight and well paved;

Casi todo el mundo miente, unos por vanidad, para presentarse bajo una luz favorable, otros por temor y la mayoría simplemente por hábito.

It occurs to me that this sobriety, so deeply rooted in my family, as well as our habit of veiling our happiness or well-being, was founded in the embarrassment we felt when we saw the poverty all around us.

Fear? Yes, there was fear, but also uncertainty, emotional dependence, force of habit, and the rule of silence that impeded me from talking about what was happening; I isolated myself.

No se preguntaba por qué rehuía el amor, ya que la respuesta le parecía obvia: era su ineludible penitencia. Con el tiempo se había acostumbrado a sus hábitos de monje y a ese silencio interno de los que viven y duermen solos.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

You sometimes go back to your comfort zone when you're in a bad place, you try and be safe.

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

Character is long-standing habit.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Custom is the law of fools.