Top 100 Bad Habit Quotes
#2. Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
Joel Osteen
#3. Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
Daniel Coyle
#4. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#5. Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.
Rob Brezsny
#6. The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo Aikman
#7. He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.
She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!
Avijeet Das
#8. Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard
#9. Kate laid her hand against his cheek. "Why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep getting hurt?"
"Bad habit," Milligan mumbled.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#10. He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.
Adelle Waldman
#11. What are we do to? The child sex trade is not for us: our children are unattractive and rude, and - due to the knowledge of our history - have a bad habit of mugging prospective customers and shoving them over cliffs.
Margaret Atwood
#13. This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker
Elbert Hubbard
#14. People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!
Ward Churchill
#15. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Rob Brezsny
#16. I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
Mick Jagger
#17. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Richard Carlson
#18. And you have a bad habit of pretending like you don't need people." There was a bite in his tone. "I'm not sorry I kissed you.
Jennifer Wilson
#19. When you want to quit a 'bad habit, think about what 'good' it's doing in your life.
Trishna Damodar
#20. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.
Oscar Wilde
#21. It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things ...
L.M. Montgomery
#22. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou
#23. My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Yes, I know the word tenacious. I'm 13 and disillusioned. And a little lonely.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.
Leigh Bardugo
#25. Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
Sharon Horgan
#26. I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.
Khleo
#27. Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.
Chanakya
#28. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
Conor Oberst
#30. If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
Rebel Wilson
#32. Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.
Kathleen Tessaro
#33. I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.
Eric Kripke
#34. And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being
angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
yourself without thinking about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#35. You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.
Champ Bailey
#36. For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.
Teresa Of Avila
#37. What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving the headlines for the grotesque and scary.
Shauna Niequist
#38. But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
Gabrielle Zevin
#39. It was a bad habit of hers ... looking for safety in places where there wasn't any.
Lisa Kleypas
#40. Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
George E.P. Box
#41. I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective
Douglas Preston
#42. You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
Mark Twain
#44. It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.
Theodore Roszak
#46. The life we have left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints against us, of taking us to court.
Milan Kundera
#47. Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.
Agatha Christie
#48. You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!
Scott Westerfeld
#49. I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Mike Krzyzewski
#50. If a bad habit is a learned behavior, then what we've learned needs to be burned in/thru the Refiner's Fire! el
Evinda Lepins
#51. Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.
Ken Kesey
#52. No sleep?" asked Shadow, smiling. "I don't sleep. It's overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid - in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don't get back to her.
Neil Gaiman
#53. The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
Denis Waitley
#54. Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
Joyce Meyer
#55. A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg
Elmer Kelton
#57. I have a bad habit of dropping verbal pellets to get a reaction, like Ursula LeGuin's "A novelist's business is lying" (that particular one got a lot of attention on Facebook), or, "Why is it that Christians hate the word 'sex'?
Chila Woychik
#58. He's just a guy who got caught up in a bad habit and made a few mistakes at work." "He's
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#59. It is a bad habit to shout it from the rooftops when one challenges a person. Not everyone benefits from attracting attention.
Alexandre Dumas
#60. I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye.
Katze Snow
#61. Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.
Joyce Meyer
#62. I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
Claire McCaskill
#63. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#64. Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
Sakyong Mipham
#65. Alaska pulling the controller up and to the right, as if that would help her escape certain death. I had the same bad habit.
John Green
#66. The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it
J. C. Penney
#67. I'm starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me."
She turns shy and looks down. "You are worth saving.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#68. I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.
Bryan Cranston
#70. I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.
Charles Bukowski
#71. Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
Joan Chen
#72. As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.
Barack Obama
#73. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
Dan Simmons
#74. Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
#75. ...and suffering is another bad habit.
Saul Bellow
#76. That mouth. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it.
Michelle Hodkin
#77. Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.
Greg Child
#78. Queen Elizabeth was rather a flirt all her life. She finally developed a bad habit of boxing her partners' ears and shouting "god's death, I'll have thy head!" This discouraged some of her more sensitive partners,
Will Cuppy
#79. Transcending divisiveness is one of the dreams of centrists, as if disagreement were a bad habit rather than fundamental to politics.
Doug Henwood
#81. I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.
Donald Ray Pollock
#82. Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.
John Flanagan
#83. I can't prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit.
Joan Ambu
#84. You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked.
Falling for you, Amarissa thought.
Aishabella Sheikh
#85. We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.
Andrew Bogut
#86. When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."
Michelle Singletary
#87. Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
Roshon Fegan
#88. Criticism, like swearing, is actually nothing more than a bad habit.
Richard Carlson
#89. I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.
Justin Deeley
#90. married life is merely a habit, a bad habit.
Oscar Wilde
#91. A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make
Boonaa Mohammed
#92. Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.
Vladimir Nabokov
#93. In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.
Joseph Albo
#94. I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
Don Rickles
#95. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
#96. As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
Oscar Wilde
#97. And with that, they parted like two strangers, setting off in entirely different directions, just as they had in the past, as if it were some kind of bad habit, or maybe just a curse.
Jennifer E. Smith
#98. Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
Charles Duhigg
#100. I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
Gilbert Gottfried
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