Habit Quotes

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

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.

Winning is a habit.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

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.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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.

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

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

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

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

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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

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

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

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