Habit Building Quotes

#1. Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Daniel Coyle

#2. I don't want to play anymore ... I love you.

Ilona Andrews

#3. ...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...

Olisa Ufondu

#4. At my age, what's the use of thinking about my talents? Effort is what's necessary. (Kang 1989: 117)

Kang Sok-Kyong

#5. Always deliver more in 'perceived value' than you take in cash value.

Jeff Blackman

#6. I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Will Ferrell

#7. By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.

Jason Medina

#8. Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Gene Luen Yang

#9. We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.

Jeffrey Kluger

#10. Never has a spear moved so fast!

Zhao Yun

#11. Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

Anna White

#12. I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#13. Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Napoleon Hill

#14. The more a congregation considers its people customers, the more likely it is to develop a broader range of ministries to relate to varying needs, interests and priorities.

Stan Toler

#15. If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.

John Assaraf

#16. Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.

George R R Martin

#17. It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#18. Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#19. The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#20. Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Napoleon Hill

#21. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

#22. The bureaucrats had gotten into a habit of solving every medical problem by building something so that a congressman could say, 'Here's what I did!' It didn't make any sense, but everybody did the same thing again and again.

Charles Duhigg

#23. I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

Nicole Krauss

#24. [..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]

Douglas Adams

#25. I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well.

Doreen Virtue