Quotes About Habit

He knew she needed time to sort the problem out in her mind. Because he was such a patient man, he decided to give her an hour or two to agree. He thought he was being very courteous, and cautioned himself against letting such consideration become a habit.

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Dieses frühzeitiges Aufstehen macht einem ganz blödsinnig. Man muss sein Schlaf haben...

we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making an unkind remark and the spurt of triumph when we vanquish an annoying colleague. Thus do we assert ourselves and tell the world who we are. It is difficult to break a habit upon which we depend for our sense of self.

The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.