Quotes About Habit

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.

You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal." Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.

Ritual isn't a New World strong point.

It takes time for the habit of people to wear off of you

Habit, routine, our daily humdrum apathy and indifference, this is the shield we put between us and reality, the shield with which we protect ourselves from life while we are engaged in the business of living. It is the function of the arts to pierce that shield, to re-awaken in us a forgotten knowledge.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Knowing what to do doesn't help at all when you have a habit of justifying why today isn't the day to do the work—convincing yourself that tomorrow holds some promise today doesn't.

Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie: when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

By habit, she looked round the room she sat in. Anything she could do to it had been done; what it could do to her seemed without limit.