Quotes About Habit

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

What we live with, we learn. What we learn, we practice. What we practice, we become.