Habit Quotes - page 2

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. (Mary Martin)
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. View quote
Napoleon Hill
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. View quote
Publilius Syrus
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. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. View quote
Virginia Woolf
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. View quote
Salman Rushdie
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
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. View quote
Audre Lorde
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. (Vince Lombardi)
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. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. View quote
Sydney Smith
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. View quote
Marcel Proust
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years. View quote
Steven Spielberg
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. View quote
Christopher Morley
Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit. View quote
Buster Keaton
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. View quote
William James
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (James Allen)
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. View quote
Dale Carnegie