Top 291 Habitual Quotes & Sayings

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.