Top 100 Quotes About Bad Habits
#2. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
Bo Bennett
#3. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller
#4. I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?
Stephen King
#5. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey MacKay
#6. We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.
R.A. Torrey
#7. I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii ... a lot of bad habits.
Bui Diem
#8. Habits die hard, only good ones, because bad ones are immortal.
Lovely Goyal
#9. Warren Buffett chuckled and said to me "I hope it's not my bad habits" Good Habits once established are just as hard to break as bad habits and bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it?
Lucas Remmerswaal
#10. It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
Shirley Jones
#11. Good habits are important, but it's often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential. You
Amy Morin
#12. Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.
Samuel Richardson
#13. A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny Craig
#14. Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't that true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look, how to understand, we're all like that, all, you, and I, and they
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Nate Silver
#16. Assess your days and reconcile the differences. Repeat steps to success and dispose bad habits.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#17. The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.
Mary Page Keller
#18. I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.
Jason Mraz
#19. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
Cynthia Ozick
#20. A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
Peter Kreeft
#21. I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
David James Elliott
#22. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.
Stewart Butterfield
#23. All women were prone to some bad habits. As were we men. But as a man, I have to say that women were more of a struggle to understand than we men.
Michele Renae
#24. Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!
Zig Ziglar
#25. I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
Margaret Deland
#26. Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight.
Alysha Speer
#27. It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things ...
L.M. Montgomery
#28. Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.
Mark Matteson
#29. People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. Every action you take has consequences. Bad habits (negative behavior) produce negative consequences. Successful habits (positive behavior) produce benefits and rewards.
Jack Canfield
#31. Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.
Joyce Meyer
#32. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#33. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.
James Vila Blake
#34. The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.
Celia Thaxter
#35. We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.
Edwin J. Delattre
#36. Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.
Mark Frauenfelder
#37. Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
Michael Bennet
#38. Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
Kate Beaton
#39. Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.
Edwin J. Delattre
#40. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.
John Taylor Gatto
#41. People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.
Megan Smith
#43. Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.
James MacDonald
#44. Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
Phyllis Schlafly
#45. The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.
Bui Diem
#47. I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.
Taylor Hanson
#48. When we are crazy busy, we put our souls at risk. The challenge is not merely to make a few bad habits go away. The challenge is to not let our spiritual lives slip away.
Kevin DeYoung
#49. When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.
Walter Moers
#50. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. BUTs are like bad habits. They have to be acknowledged, accepted, and aggressively managed.
Joseph Azelby
#52. My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Layne Staley
#53. Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.
Edward De Bono
#54. I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy ... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley
#55. When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.
Jemima Kirke
#56. Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
John Ruskin
#57. I'm a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Dan Gable
#58. Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.
Brian Tracy
#59. Those people who think the same thoughts every day, most of them negative, have fallen into bad mental habits. Rather than focusing on all the good in their lives and thinking of ways to make things even better, they are captives of their pasts.
Robin S. Sharma
#60. Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#62. Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
Tim McCarver
#63. There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin
#64. How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.
Albert Camus
#65. Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
Edward Abbey
#66. Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.
Jonathan Carroll
#67. Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
Herbert M. Shelton
#68. Your net worth to the
world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are
subtracted from your good ones
Benjamin Franklin
#69. you've exceeded expectations for a prince charming pretty much every step of the way." "I still have bad habits," he pointed out. "Leaving my socks on the floor. Waging wholesale slaughter and pillaging innocent worlds. Swearing.
Terry Mancour
#70. We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
David Lee Roth
#71. People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
#72. The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
Jerome Hines
#73. Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason Cooley
#74. S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.
Lucas Remmerswaal
#75. We seem to face an enemy who, no matter how many times we win, will best us in the end. He has so many allies: time, disease, boredom, stupidity, religious quackery, and bad habits.
Tom Robbins
#76. Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.
Ann Patchett
#77. I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.
Sherri Saum
#78. Bad habits are like infection. Inflammation starts from the mouth and weaken the body's ability.
Kishore Bansal
#79. Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.
Thomas Lickona
#80. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. 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
#82. The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.
Mel Gibson
#83. Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.
J. Loren Norris
#84. I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
Ben Gibbard
#85. We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
Marilu Henner
#86. Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Al Franken
#87. Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana
#88. People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.
Peace Pilgrim
#89. It took a clever man to figure out a way to make a profit off his bad habits.
Joe Hill
#90. Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
Elie Metchnikoff
#91. I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
Angie Stone
#92. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#93. Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
Ben Hecht
#94. Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
Thomas Browne
#95. For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
Aristotle.
#97. I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
Jordan Knight
#98. Quote: You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay?
Dennis Miller
#99. The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
Alain De Botton
#100. I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we will easily be able to break our old cycle of bad habits and develop something deeper and more meaningful
Evan Sutter
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