Quotes About Habit

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings … As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

Most of our behaviour is automatic, operating without the need for conscious thought.

And it is exactly because many humans embrace routine that we even consider allowing them to share our homes, let alone retain them as members

He always woke early, had coffee, checked his e-mail and then decided whether to climb back into bed.

The sweet habit of each other had begun to put lines around her mouth, lines that looked like quotation marks – as if everything she said had been said before.

Repetition Compulsion": Doing "It" Over and Over Again

Intentional actions, repeated over and over, become habits. Habitual ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and reacting construct and compose my sense of of self: the Kind of person I am. The kind of person I am does not fully determine what occurs to me but strongly affects what happens and how I respond to it.

Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful.

excessive weight in one generation may predispose the next for higher lifetime risk of obesity, apart from genetic inheritance and the tendency of offspring to pick up their parents' lifestyle habits.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

You never think about the things you don't think about, the things that are just there, part of the background, part of the routine.

That whole bit was something John had come up with, the man having a terrible habit of carrying out his drunken 3:00 A.M. ideas even after daylight and sobriety came. It was always 3:00 A.M. for John.

mascot for a butcher shop whose profits went entirely to support the owner's acid habit.

when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

but I had to find out if the desire to be a leader was stronger than his habit of being a boss.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

Lonesome is habit," she said with a shrug. "One that can be broken.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

If you keep doing what you have always done, your life will never change. Change your routine.

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one's daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life.