Quotes on Habit

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Author: Chinua Achebe

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Author: Leo Aikman

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Author: Maya Angelou

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Author: Aristotle

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.

Author: Aristotle

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Author: James Baldwin

Habit is a great deadener.

Author: Samuel Beckett

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Author: Billy Boyd

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Author: Hal Boyle

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Author: Tycho Brahe

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Author: Warren Buffett

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Author: Anthony Burgess

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Author: Dale Carnegie

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Author: Emile Cioran

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.

Author: Emile Cioran

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Author: Frank Clark

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

Author: Frank Clark

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Author: Jean Cocteau

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

Author: Anderson Cooper

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Author: Norman Cousins

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Author: Salvador Dali

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

Author: Claire Danes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Author: Rene Descartes

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Author: Ernest Dimnet

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

Author: Mike Ditka

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Author: Alfred Doblin

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Author: Arthur Doyle

Winning is a habit.

Author: Leo Durocher

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Author: Dick Dyke

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Author: Dick Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Author: Henry Dyke

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Author: Tryon Edwards

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Author: Epictetus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Author: Joe Eszterhas

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

Author: W. Fields

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Author: David George

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

Author: Balthazar Getty

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Author: Edward Hale

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Author: G. Hall

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Author: Alcee Hastings

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

Author: Mike Hawkins

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Author: Helen Hayes

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Author: Rutherford Hayes

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Author: Carolyn Heilbrun

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Author: Martin Henderson

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Author: John Hewson

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Author: Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Author: Napoleon Hill

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.

Author: Napoleon Hill

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Author: Augustine Hippo

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Author: Hippocrates

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Author: Kin Hubbard

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Author: Victor Hugo

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Author: Edmund Husserl

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Author: Aldous Huxley

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Author: Samuel Johnson

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.

Author: Helen Keller

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

Author: Craig Kilborn

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Author: Maxine Kingston

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Author: Charles Kuralt

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Author: Alphonse Lamartine

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Author: Robert Laughlin

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

Author: Chris LeDoux

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Author: Rich Little

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Author: Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Author: Vince Lombardi

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Author: Horace Mann

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Author: Mary Martin

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Author: W. Maugham

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Author: Rollo May

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Author: Herman Melville

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

Author: Wilbur Mills

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Author: Maria Mitchell

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Author: Henry Moore

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.

Author: Christopher Morley

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Author: Simon Newcomb

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Author: Francis Newman

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

Author: Jack Osbourne

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Author: Ovid

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Author: Thomas Paine

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Author: Gilbert Parker

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Author: Joe Paterno

A habit does not a monk make.

Author: Francois Rabelais

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

Author: Satyajit Ray

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Author: Jules Renard

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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.

Author: Salman Rushdie

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Author: Morley Safer

Habit is stronger than reason.

Author: George Santayana

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Author: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Author: George Shaw

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.

Author: Sargent Shriver

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Author: Charles Simmons

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Author: Wallis Simpson

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

Author: Delia Smith

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Author: Sydney Smith

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Author: Robert Stevenson

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Author: W. Stone

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Author: Arthur Sulzberger

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Author: Publilius Syrus

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

Author: Eric Taylor

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Author: Brian Tracy

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Author: Anthony Trollope

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Author: Miguel Unamuno

I am not a creature of habit.

Author: Tony Visconti

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Author: Edith Wharton

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Author: Patrick White

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Author: Paul Williams

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Author: Henry Williamson

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

Author: Loretta Young

Happiness is a habit, cultivate it.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Celebrate every tiny victory like you just won the lottery, because excellence is a habit, not an act.

Author: Jane Smith