Quotes About Habit

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Courage is like—it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

None of us ate together: my Aunt Gladys ate at five o'clock, my cousin Susan at five-thirty, me at six, and my uncle at six-thirty. There is nothing to explain this beyond the fact that my aunt is crazy.

According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Matilah dengan iradat, tetapi hiduplah dengan tabiat.

My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.

Almost all men prized the familiar path over the true.

Hard habit to break, friendship.

He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.

Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines

Even after all these uneventful years on Jacob's Ladder, I still lock the door every night.

Besides being a nasty habit that made her hair smell and stained her fingers, it was an expensive one.

your problem is that you've grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you're afraid of what will happen if you don't.