Quotes About Habit

Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.

I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good," he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Custom is second nature, and no less powerful.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits - I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.