Habit Quotes - page 42

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged. (Lord Byron)
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it . . . View quote
Charles Dickens
If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I am an optimist about America. But how can I maintain that optimism after Vietnam, after the murder of so many who fought for civil rights, after the Red scare and after the abusive tactics planned by government today? I can because we have regretted our mistakes in the past, relearning every time that no ruler can be trusted with arbitrary power. And I believe we will again.... But after all, this has always been a country of unbounded optimism, a country that struggles with itself and conquers corrupting habit.... In the end I believe that faith in reason will prevail. But it will not happen automatically. Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice. View quote
Anthony Lewis
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. View quote
William Ralph Inge
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. View quote
Hosea Ballou
It's not right-wing populism that endangers Jewish survival in Europe and Canada; it's the influx of Muslims. There's nothing new in the Jewish leadership's habit of kibitzing about the dangers to Jewish continuity from marauding Mormons (their sin is to convert dead Jews). Or, from Mel Gibson, whose movie "The Passion of the Christ” was supposed to unleash pogroms in Pittsburgh, as they falsely prophesied. View quote
Ilana Mercer
I realised fairly early that the 'wisdom of the ages' - whether from 3000 years ago or yesterday - often was simply and perfectly adaptable to the context of the football arena, and immensely valuable. From my regular morning habit of reading, I would write down any wise, pragmatic and smart quotes and ideas that struck me, and that I felt could be of use in coaching. View quote
Jack Gibson
Opium use is a quick way of showing a person's character. Within months some people would be stealing from family and friends, but there were people who never did that kind of thing. I used my salary to finance my habit. View quote
Jeet Thayil
...the big picture of our spiritual growth is not an event but the development of the habit of relationship with God. View quote
John Townsend
Turing had a strong predeliction for working things out from first principles, usually in the first instance without consulting any previous work on the subject, and no doubt it was this habit which gave his work that characteristically original flavor. (James H. Wilkinson)
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' View quote
John Green (author)
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. View quote
Jim Rohn
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. View quote
William Shakespeare
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love's best habit is a soothing tongue. View quote
William Shakespeare
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is the mind that makes the body rich and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. View quote
William Shakespeare
YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids, With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. (John Armstrong)
You may know a good painter by his habit of work: a good painter works constantly. View quote
Patrick Swift
Habit makes all things bearable. View quote
Ovid
Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. View quote
Ovid
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. View quote
Marcel Proust