Habit Quotes - Page 27

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.

I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.