Quotes About Habit

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

Nothing in life is ritual.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them.

even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.

What can one figure out in the context and concept of human nature that if one says, I eat an apple every day, and even nothing happens?

The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks.

They were addicts, and addicts of any kind were very reliable customers.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker

S]ince distance imposed the physical impossibility of intervening directly in their lives, satisfying their desires or whims became a mixture of rarefied or irresponsible gestures, every request seemed light, every task that had to do with them an affectionate habit. I felt miraculously unfettered, as if a difficult job, finally brought to completion, no longer weighed me down

Yap?yorlar, ama ne yapt?klar?n?n bilincinde deÄŸiller, birtak?m al??kanl?klar edinmiÅŸler, ama bunun nedenini bilmiyorlar; ömürleri boyunca dola??p durduklar? halde yollar?n? bulam?yorlar: kitleden ayr?lamayan, koyun gibi onun peÅŸinden gidenler için doÄŸald?r bunlar?n tümü. Sy123

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You become what you do most of the time.

Epictetus has this to say about the role of habits: 'Generally then, if you want to make something a habit, practise it; and if you do not want to make it a habit, do not do it, but get in the habit of doing something else. It is the same in relation to things of the mind.

Perché in fondo l'abitudine è un rito, si crede di fare qualcosa come se fosse un piacere e in realtà si sta ubbidendo a un dovere che ci si è imposti. O anche uno scongiuro, pensò, forse l'abitudine è anche una forma di esorcismo, e poi la si sente come un piacere.

Mentally weak has a tendency to lick the finger to stick the saliva onto it to flip the page or count the paper currency as they think that they can't do it without the spit.

Poor usually carry money in their pocket, rich businessman habitually in their mind and middle economic class people normally in both the locations.

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.