Quotes About Habit

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.

Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.

It sneaks up on you, Anne-the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life

Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate the habit of celebrating virtues wherever we recognize them. The more we rejoice in them, the sooner they will be ours.

LET A MAN REALIZE that his life, in its totality, proceeds from his mind. Let him realize that the mind is a combination of habits which he can, by patient effort, modify to any extent, and over which he can thus gain complete ascendancy, mastery, and control. At once, he will have obtained possession of the key which shall open the door to his complete emancipation.

Let a man notably adjust his mind, and he may be astonished at the rapid transformation it's going to impact within the fabric situations of his life. Men believe that idea may be kept mystery, however it can not; it hastily crystallizes into habit, and addiction solidifies into condition.

Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallises into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.

The great stumbling-block is not the habit itself, it is the belief in the impossibility of overcoming it. How can a man overcome a bad habit so long as he is convinced that it is impossible? How can a man be prevented from overcoming it when he knows that he can, and is determined to do it?

Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot. It rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.

But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, 'We'll work on it tomorrow.'

Self-discipline is a learned habit that should be developed and continuously worked on through regular application, practice, and repetition.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

What you do consistently shapes your life.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...