Quotes About Habit

It takes much time and patience to perfect this practice, so do not be discouraged by failure. This habit is only developed with much difficulty. Yet when it is achieved, how great will be your joy!

In order to form a habit of communing with God continually and committing everything we do to Him, we must at first make a special effort. After a while we find that His love inwardly inspires us to do all things for Him effortlessly.

The most reliable predictor of what you will be doing five minutes from now is what you are doing now.

It takes extraordinary effort to stop doing something in our comfort zone (because it's painless or familiar or mildly pleasurable) in order to start something difficult that will be good for us in the long run.

To avoid undesirable behavior, avoid the environments where it is most likely to occur.

You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

we know that repeated practice changes the brain

To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold dear—their daily habits, tools, loyalties, and ways of thinking—with nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility.

Each day we make dozens and dozens of small decisions. Each individual decision seems trivial and inconsequential. But together they add up to a habitual pattern that is either life-giving or life-quenching.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I always sleep with my mouth open. I know because it's open when I wake up.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Love is a product of habit

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.

Do you make it a habit to go through Sarah's diaries?" The look Laurie gave him was pure pity. "You're the one who wants to know what everyone is thinking. What makes you better?

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

en Japón se puede fumar en el interior de los locales pero no en la calle).