Quotes About Habit

It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As

There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.' 'Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, saying sorry all the time when there's absolutely no need. . .

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

Every strength becomes a weakness when not practiced.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.

I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labor is not thought, and those who have with labor acquired the habit of application often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

It's just...understanding something and actually acting on it are two different things. We humans have a habit of taking something simple... and making it hard. It's annoying, I know.

What I have found over and over is that, once we have made short-term changes, they tend to change our long-term habits.

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.