Habits Quotes

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.

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.

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".

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.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

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.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.