Habit Quotes

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibble...

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads ac...

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

Habit is a great deadener.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is ...

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, ...

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the...

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

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relat...

Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities...

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit ...

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the clever...

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pa...

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one ...

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more mi...

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the ...

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial conti...

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long af...

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away b...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one...

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, pr...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the sou...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing tem...

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by...

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious new...

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

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

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims ...

Habit is stronger than reason.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more sim...

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit ...

It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't fo...

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

The force is within you force yourself.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fac...

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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

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

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is...

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,...

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...

I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit...

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes...

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Give...

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

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

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

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

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

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

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's w...

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace an...