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Habit Quotes
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible
in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations
because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller
Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy
person has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
- Drew Barrymore
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winning is habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are six components of wellness:
proper weight and diet,
proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit,
control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
- Kenneth H. Cooper
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
- Juliette Binoche
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,
new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
- Henry Van Dyke
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form.
Its rewards are inestimable.
- Loretta Young
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough
for the habit to become an instinct.
- Henry Williamson
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will,
I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
- Delia Smith
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity,
and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
- William Winwood Reade
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around.
I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
- Sargent Shriver
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his
activities are more or less automatic reflexes from
the stimuli of his environment.
- G. Stanley Hall
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not.
I ought to know.
I've been using it for years.
- Tallulah Bankhead
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the
good instead of the bad there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napolean Hill
Negation is the mind's first freedom,
yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we
exert ourselves to overcome it,
adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
- Emile M. Cioran
We have to consciously study how to be tender with
each other until it becomes a habit because what was
native has been stolen from us,
the love of Black women for each other.
- Audre Lorde
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts,
brave by doing brave acts.
- Aristotle
Professors simply can't discuss a thing.
Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
- Hal Boyle
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
- Jack Osbourne
The world has the habit of making room for the man
whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
- Napoleon Hill
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit;
perhaps it is larger than ours is,
for it can take in almost anything without effort.
- Christopher Morley
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy;
it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
- Anthony Trollope
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
- Nikita Khrushchev
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit
of going the extra mile by rendering more service and
better service than you are now being paid for.
- Napoleon Hill
Man is not imprisoned by habit.
Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -
once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
- Norman Cousins
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward;
it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the
good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some
kind word of those whom you do not admire,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napolean Hill
As this is the first time I have had the floor,
it may be well for me now to confess,
that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
- Gerrit Smith
Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- Miguel de Unamuno
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
In that race which daily hastens us towards death,
the body maintains its irreparable lead.
- Albert Camus