Top 1200 Bad Habit Quotes & Sayings

We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

I got a bad habit of creating.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Most athletes, we're the good ol' boys, part of the good-ol'-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.