Quotes About Habits

#1. It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

Andrew Jackson

#2. We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.

Bruce Barcott

#3. In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Bertolt Brecht

#5. Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Erica Jong

#6. Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids.

Homaro Cantu

#7. Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

Alex Steffen

#9. The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

Paul Theroux

#10. These days I think the important word is "transformational," and I define practice as the attempt to establish clarity in the mind so that habits that create suffering are replaced by habits that lead to peace and express themselves as love.

Shefa Gold

#11. When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits ... Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.

Shirley Corder

#12. Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

John Manning

#13. Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Khalil Gibran

#14. People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Ben Hecht

#15. The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

Isaiah Berlin

#16. I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

#17. It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. Unlike consumers' shopping habits and financial fraud, terrorism does not occur with enough frequency to enable the creation of valid predictive models," Jonas

Julia Angwin

#19. Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

Dorothea Brande

#20. We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

Rand Olson

#21. Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#23. Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

William George Jordan

#24. One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Jean Cocteau

#25. So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

Richard Stallman

#26. Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

John Spence

#28. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. Paranoia was one of the few habits that was worth keeping.

Genevieve Cogman

#30. I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

#31. Ever since about 3.8 billion years ago, when the first cells began quivering in the primordial ooze, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, awkward feeding habits, aggressively antisocial tendencies, and mucus. So much mucus.

Mara Grunbaum

#32. No one in this world can change your habits, but only you can ... so, MOst powerfull person of this world is you..! ... keep that in your mind!

M Fazan Hafeez

#33. When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

Tracy McGrady

#34. I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

Eubie Blake

#35. If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Michael Franti

#36. Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.

Epictetus

#37. Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Martin Seligman

#38. But old habits die hard.

J.D. Robb

#39. Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be - a chance for re-creation.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#40. Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

James Gleick

#41. As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

Sonia Sotomayor

#42. I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

Gretchen Rubin

#43. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

O. Henry

#44. You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

T. Harv Eker

#45. As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Don McLean

#46. I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

Peace Pilgrim

#47. A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

J.C. Ryle

#48. We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

Lawrence Frank

#49. What I believe ... about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

Alvin R. Dyer

#50. How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

Albert Einstein

#51. Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#52. I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#53. This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#54. Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in conversation, habits, recreation, emphasis, and ambitions to be noted in our daily life.

Billy Graham

#55. I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

Felix Dennis

#56. A careful physician ... before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#57. Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.

Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

#58. We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

John Dryden

#59. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Margaret Atwood

#60. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...

Ann Brashares

#61. A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#62. It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Edward Gibbon

#63. Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#64. The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Walter Lippmann

#65. For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Charles Duhigg

#66. I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.

Kevin Keck

#67. When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

Omar Ahmad

#68. Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

Thomas Jefferson

#69. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Og Mandino

#70. Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

#71. Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

Seth Godin

#72. Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#73. Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.

Virginia Woolf

#74. Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

William James

#75. Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself while you still can!

T.F. Hodge

#76. Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

Darren Johnson

#77. There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Ezra Cornell

#78. Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Dee Hock

#79. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

Julie Bowen

#80. The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

J. Paul Getty

#81. Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

William Herndon

#82. When changes are not converted to new habits, it takes conscious effort to continue performing the changed behavior. Willpower, which drives proper behavior that has not yet become a habit, is like a

Kyle Havill

#83. I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like that seems entirely possible, a feeling that always dissolves by the next morning, when I wake up to the familiar, unmovable shapes of my own life.

Nicole Krauss

#84. Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

Tom Robbins

#85. Many people decide to improve their habits, they don't begin by looking where their keys are; they begin by looking in an easy spot.

Gretchen Rubin

#86. I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.

Eugenia Price

#87. Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

Joyce Meyer

#88. In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

Nathaniel Rich

#89. It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#90. It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#91. Usually we hold a frozen view of ourselves as well as of the world 'out there.' ... We identify with groups, behaviours, habits, and beliefs.

Steve Hagen

#92. We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

C.J. Mahaney

#93. Great habits improve performance and brings great success.

Debasish Mridha

#94. We must make a study of our God: what he loves, what he hates, how he speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of him if we want to become like him. We must seek his face.

Jen Wilkin

#95. Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James

Mason Currey

#96. Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Clarence Darrow

#97. The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

George Edward Woodberry

#98. A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias ... it is the Self escaping into the open.

E.B. White

#99. Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

George Berkeley

#100. Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

Peter Drucker