Quotes About Habit

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

Stop free-basing sugar.

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

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Tesla had run into the problem that even if one system (his) was better, sheer inertia, habit, and the cost of the new could combine to thwart technological improvement.

Well, what ever he calls it," said Marlon's granny, "he looks like an idiot with that stupid great thing stuck in his mouth all the time.

Never drink black coffee at lunch: it will keep you awake in the afternoon.

Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.

When we have the habit of setting as a goal only activity that we can accomplish and that is genuinely productive, we've taken the first step to getting some real work done. Rather than succeeding or not succeeding almost by accident in the service of some goal that's really beyond our control, we've taken the first step to taking responsibility for our actions and to end what is, really, self-deception (and probably companywide deception).

Yet there still was love, the placid love that only time can cultivate, a love preserved by habit and by memory. Their tree had little rising sap, perhaps, but it was held firm by deep and ancient roots.

The key to effective discipline is to control only what we can control. We can never make an infant stop crying, quit bothering us, stop sucking his or her thumb, or cut the whining. What we can and should control, though, is where he or she does all these things.