Habit Quotes - Page 21

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Paint something every day.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

To make headway, improve your head.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.