Top 56 Break A Habit Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Break A Habit

#1. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Benjamin Franklin

#2. It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Andy Stanley

#3. Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

Charles Duhigg

#4. The attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Margaret Deland

#5. It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

Patrick Holford

#6. Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

Shiv Khera

#7. Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

#8. 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

#9. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Chip Heath

#11. I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Winston Churchill

#12. I really need to break him of the bad language habit he's developing at a rapid pace, but who am I to talk? I curse all the fucking time.

Monica Murphy

#13. I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

Ron Atkinson

#14. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

#15. Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

Stephen Kinzer

#16. He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil.

Graham Greene

#17. A HABIT IS A CABLE; WE WEAVE A THREAD EACH DAY, AND AT LAST WE CANNOT BREAK IT." - Horace Mann

Jack Canfield

#18. I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.

Sarah Dessen

#19. You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

Douglas Preston

#20. Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

Charlie Nicholas

#21. One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Gudjon Bergmann

#22. If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Plutarch

#23. Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy.
"I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Janet Evanovich

#24. It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

Evelyn E. Smith

#25. The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

Jack Nicholson

#26. Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

Pauline Neville-Jones

#27. If you want to break the sin habit, you'd better establish a prayer habit.

Mark Batterson

#28. While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.

Linda McMahon

#29. There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

Octavia E. Butler

#30. I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.

Donald Ray Pollock

#31. To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Jean Toomer

#32. Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

Marita Golden

#33. 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

#34. YOU FEAR TO DIE?
It's not that I don't want ... I mean, I've always ... it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break ...

Terry Pratchett

#35. The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Leo Aikman

#36. During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.

Heidi Julavits

#37. Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

Imtiaz Dharker

#38. You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

Chris LeDoux

#39. How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

John Boyle O'Reilly

#40. Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break.

Ben Aaronovitch

#41. 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

#42. Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands. They were an expensive habit, but one he could not break.

John Grisham

#43. OLD HABITS DIE HARD...
Love is a difficult habit to break..!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#44. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all. In

Joseph Heller

#45. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.

Anne Frank

#46. First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

T.D. Jakes

#47. Worry is a habit. Even if what you worry about comes true - good or bad - there will always be something else to worry about ... Break the habit!

Charles F. Glassman

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller