Quotes About Habits

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do," because "all of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment , of education, of acquired habits and of heredity molding men as they are and will forever be.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.' Come help me celebrate mine.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

En los primeros treinta años de tu vida, tú defines tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta, tus hábitos te definen a ti".

The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children.

The effort of decision, we have seen, is the greatest effort of life; not the doing of the thing, but the making up of one's mind as to which thing to do first. It is commonly this sort of mental indolence, born of indecision, which leads to dawdling habits.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits.

Everywhere you go, on edges of chairs and window-sills, and piazza-rails and billiard-tables, you see cigars that have been only a little bit smoked; it is dreadful. The proprietor ought to have them ground up and used for English breakfast tea; people would never know the difference.

What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps.

No drugs, doctors, or treatments will cure life style

Our health is more about our actions than our age

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Unser Leben ist eingeengt von zahllosen Gewohnheiten, an die man sich halten muss, wenn man zur Horde gehören will.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. —Mark Twain

Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.

Filth implied social and domestic disorder; and, when discovered in the home, inculcated immoral habits – for it was widely agreed that working men, faced with poor housekeeping, sought refuge in the glittering comforts of the gin palace.