Habit Quotes - Page 23

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.