Habit Quotes - Page 24

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit.

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.