Quotes About Habit

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

He'd been going out with his right hand for so long they were practically common law spouses.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

Reasoning is the art of fixing the relativeness of things. "It is by means of reasoning that it is possible to differentiate events and to indicate to what category they belong. "It is the habit of reasoning to determine that which it is wise to undertake, thus permitting us to judge what should be set aside.

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not want to miss a single opportunity for tormenting myself. This is a trite device, often adopted by persons who, cut off from all other means of escape, retreat into the safe haven of regarding themselves as objects of tragedy.

I have been self-reliant to the point of sadness. I wonder when I first fell into the habit of washing my hands after each brush with humanity, lest I be contaminated.

Surely, I thought, we do not deserve even a little happiness. Or perhaps we had acquired the bad habit of regarding even a little happiness as a big favor, which we would have to repay.

Habit is a horrible thing. I repeated the kiss for which I had so repented.

Somehow the habit of eating had never appeared so ridiculous to me, and I rubbed my eyes. Presently I realized that my point of view came from having completely lost the desire to live.

You're daydreaming while you eat, aren't you? That's a child's habit.

Why is it that she always has such bad luck?" "Sometimes jiltings run in series - like miscarriages. Her nervous system has gotten in the habit of it, I suppose, and when she falls in love it has to end in miscarriage.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

Uma das poucas leis férreas da história é que os luxos tendem a se tornar necessidades e a gerar novas obrigações. Uma vez que as pessoas se acostumam a um certo luxo, elas o dão como garantido.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

We are more likely to respond according to our habits than to the specifics of the situation.

Despite habit and numbness, a person can find the beginning of the road, and if one has courage, the whole enormous load of fear -- the dead weight of the past -- can be shed.