Quotes About Habit

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

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

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.