Quotes About Habit

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of Reading." Lin writes that, "the man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood.

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

Virtue is an habit whereby the will is inclined to do well.

They say familiarity breeds contempt. This may or may not be true, but it is clear that familiarity breeds comfort: do something scary often enough, and it not only ceases to be scary, it becomes automatic.

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

This habit of actively collecting examples of other people's foolish behavior is an invaluable antidote to idiocy. In fact, it's the second great anti-stupidity technique we should learn from Munger.

Still, he should be forgiven what we all want: forgetting within the fuck. Love is a nervous habit. Haven't many said so? Snacking. Smoking. Talking. Joking. Alike as light bulbs. Drinking. Drugging. Frigging. Fucking.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

Habit is… the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

Same old slippers,Same old rice,Same old glimpse ofParadise.