Habit Quotes - Page 9

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.