Quotes About Habit

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Él nunca se lo perdonó. Es una costumbre que tienen los aburridos

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

A little, panted Mrs. Peagrim, who, though she danced often and vigorously, was never in the best of condition, owing to her habit of neutralizing the beneficent effects of exercise by surreptitious candy-eating. I'm a little out of breath.

She wished that she had been content with one of the seats at the back. But Jane Hubbard had insisted on the front row. She always had a front-row seat at witch dances in Africa, and the thing had become a habit.

He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

Gussie is an orange-juice addict. He drinks nothing else.' 'I was not aware of that, sir.' 'I have it from his own lips. Whether from some hereditary taint, or because he promised his mother he wouldn't, or simply because he doesn't like the taste of the stuff, Gussie Fink-Nottle has never in the whole course of his career pushed so much as the simplest gin and tonic over the larynx

Scientists tell us that 98 percent of our 60,000 thoughts are repeats from the day before.

JUDGMENT Whenever you talk against another person for the love of gossip or through force of habit, remember, you will be judged by your Heavenly Father in the same way. Whatever you give out, the same will you attract. If you peddle the weaknesses of others, the Divine Law will mysteriously bring about the publicity of your own inner faults.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

The more your mind resists a bad habit instead of embracing it gleefully, the more you will build up the inner strength eventually to overcome it. Thus

You may argue that others have been born with the special talent you lack but desire to have. This is true. But they had to cultivate the habit of that ability some time - if not in this life, then in a previous one. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.

I don't know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.

I was being cynical. I'm sorry. It's a family habit I've fallen prey to.

A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.

three rules to break the worry habit: RULE 1. FIND OUT PRECISELY WHAT IS THE PROBLEM YOU ARE WORRYING ABOUT. RULE 2. FIND OUT THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. RULE 3. DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE AT ONCE ABOUT SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

To break the worry habit before it breaks you—here is Rule 3: "Let's examine the record." Let's ask ourselves: "What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?

bodily habits are the primary form in which human evil exists in practical life is