Quotes About Habit

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

Each moment is an opportunity to see that we do not have to succumb to old habits that function below the level of our awareness. With great intentionality and resolve, we can experiment with non-distraction. We can experiment with non-diversion. We can experiment with non-fixing. We can experiment with non-doing.

Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

One of the keys to longevity and good health is to develop a habit of gratitude and let go of past hurts.

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!

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

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

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break this habit and talk about your joys.