Quotes About Habit

To retain self-control, mental poise, equanimity, under all provocations, great or small, is an indication of a fine strong character. It is a triumph of strength over weakness, of greatness over littleness. The habit of conquering ourselves is the habit of victory; it strengthens all the faculties.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. He

but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.