Habit Quotes - Page 30

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

Get in the habit of appreciating things.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

If you have a habit of declaring milestones or changing them based on the crisis of the day, don't expect the team to remain motivated. Similarly, if the team isn't aware of the milestone and the value behind it, they are unlikely to deliver.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.