Quotes About Habits

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

Habits form a second nature.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Make your habits your beloved home.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones.

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.