Quotes About Habit

Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people

Leopards don't change their spots

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was the only reason I started playing cricket in the first place. And thereafter it continued.

Character is not created on the spot.

A zebra does not change its spots.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

I make sure that I am active all time. For example I make it a point not to use the lift or escalator. If there is a staircase then I will climb it, even if it is 10 floors.

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

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

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.