Quotes About Habit

The longer you wait and put off the nice things you should do on a regular basis, the harder it is to do them, until finally you have to force yourself to be nice, to be thoughtful, and it isn't easy, because you're embarrassed about not having done those easy, nice things in a natural kind of way. Also, the people who you're nice to come to expect your regular niceness. That's it in a nutshell.

Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

The habits of Franciscan nuns still shrouded all but their faces, and so each of the new nun's features were emphasized, read forty times over in astonishment. Outlined in a stiff white frame of starched linen, Sister's eyes, nose, and mouth leapt out, a mask from a dream, a great raw-boned jackal's muzzle.

It was Pollux, chomping into an apple that he'd lightly peppered. That's how he ate apples. Held the pepper tin in one hand so he could get a jolt in every bite.

The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist, even rather scantily, in a certain niche with the help of a few grimaces, he must either keep at it or resign himself to dying the death of a guinea pig. Habits are acquired more quickly than courage, especially the habit of filling one's stomach.

semicolons are dangerously habit-forming. Many writers hooked on semicolons become an embarrassment to their families and friends.

Vadiação é bom costume.

a dança é um prazer dos olhos. Esta opinião é um dos efeitos daquele mau costume de envelhecer

Folly, however, has long been in the habit of taking a fancy to other people's houses, and once she's taken up residence, she's almost impossible to shift.

Forgive me, I'm preaching. I've spent so much of my life giving sermons that it's a habit I find hard to break.

It's extremely difficult to get things in perspective when you rub up against them every day.

He called everyone sweetheart. There was nothing particularly special about it.

Success is a habit not an isolated event. Be passionate about success to cultivate it.

When perseverance becomes a force of habit, success becomes a guarantee.

It's what you do every day that counts. Eating seven apples on Sunday won't keep the doctor away!

Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine

Secret of success is found on your regular actions

Routines and daily habits aren't restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity.

Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life.

Your life is defined by how you spend your time and what you choose to do daily, so a life of passion is not an act but a habit.

Develop the daily habit of visualisation and dreaming by consciously seeing a better and brighter future through your mind's eye.