Habit Quotes - Page 6

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

You must throw away your bad habits to get good.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.