Quotes About Habits

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

We die as we live," says Fareed, reaching for a ruler. "Our mental and physical traumas, our pasts, daily habits, lusts, desires, fetishes, addictions—it's all written into the body.

The Bradleys bookend their weekends by balancing these booze-filled habits with a running habit and a church habit on Sundays.

Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Some of the habits back then seem not so much of another era as from a different planet. On the Friday lunchtime before home games, for instance, the trainer Tom Curry used to inflate the match ball, lace it up and immerse it in a bucket of water, where it stayed, kept submerged by a brick, until just before kick-off. It would then be pulled out ready for action, saturated, weighing about half a ton.

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

But I felt at that moment that if ever a place were in need of a little magic . . . Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes the impulse never quite leaves you.

Making unnecessary noises when you're bored...we all do it.

She complains about being fat but she's eatin potato chips at 1am....NO WONDER!

Children close their ears to advice but open their eyes to example. To inculcate good habits in children establish open communication, provide example how to behave properly, be involved in your child's life, praise and acknowledge when they do well.

Let me look at your house and I will tell you who you are.

People don't desire their future, they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.

Something you are doing everyday is what your children will remember the rest of their lives.

You can tell more about a person by how he spends his money and time.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

You may be inspired to desirable action to fulfill your good intentions, but you may lack the necessary knowledge, or you may neglect to use the required skills if you have them, and thus you may fail to develop new habit patterns.

the inner urge of your feelings, emotions, instincts, and ingrained habits gives you the go power that puts you into action.