Habit Quotes

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

George Santayana

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W Somerset Maugham

Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Charles Davenport

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai Stevenson

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

George Cabot Lodge

Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

William Shakespeare

Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.

Spanish Proverb

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Suetonius

A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.

Custom is second nature and no less powerful.

Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Habit is a great deadener.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

John Stuart Mill

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Raymond Mortimer

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Martin F. Tupper

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Old habits will keep you stuck as they won't open doors to new opportunities.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

Gustave Flaubert

By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.

Life is the sum of habits, only occasionally disturbed by a thought.

Anonymous

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

Oswald Chambers

Discipline is needed in our eating habit.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

Gian-Carlo Rota

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked.Falling for you, Amarissa thought.

Aishabella Sheikh

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.

Assegid Habtewold

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

Plutarch

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

Marco G. Casteleijn

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Aristotle

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

Fredrik Backman

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

Margaret Atwood

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

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