You Have Become My Habit Quotes

#1. Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Joseph Joubert

#2. The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

Robert Henri

#3. Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Don't count calories, don't hate carbs, don't go to the Stone Age. Simply eat real food, healthy food, and find ways to love every bit of food and the health that results. It will become a lifelong habit and you can leave the yo-yoing behind.

Thomas M. Campbell II

#5. It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.

Walter Lippman

#6. And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

John Tillotson

#8. I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

W.C. Fields

#9. Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.

Brian Tracy

#10. Sometimes you think you love someone," I said, "but it's really just that they've become a habit.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character?

Orson Scott Card

#12. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.

Ted Dekker

#13. Do the hard first, and the easy will follow. The work will become habit and success inevitable.

Beau Henderson

#14. But Mr. Davy would not become a doctor, for a copy of Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry fell into his hands. Soon enough, Davy was discharged from Dr. Borlase's service because of his habit of performing explosive experiments.

Benjamin Wiker

#15. A habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night ... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

Toni Morrison

#16. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Rosen Topuzov

#17. To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

Jostein Gaarder

#19. The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Steven Pressfield

#20. Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#21. Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Epictetus

#22. Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Twyla Tharp

#23. We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

Theodore Dalrymple

#25. Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

Joel Brown

#26. The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

M.P. Shiel

#27. For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

Nir Eyal

#28. Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#30. Judging has become such a part of our thinking patterns that we are rarely even aware of why and how we do it. It takes a great deal of conscious thinking or mindfulness to even bring the habit of judging into our awareness.

Brene Brown