Top 1200 Habit Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

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

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.

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

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

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

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.

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

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

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.

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

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

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

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

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

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

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

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

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

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

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

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

Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

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.

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

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

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

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 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.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

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

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.