Habits Quotes

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Habits change into character.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

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

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.