Top 1200 Bad Habit Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

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

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

I think it's a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that's not your job. You're not a writer, necessarily - although there are some actors that are good at it.

It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

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. This is not the case here. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

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.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.