Habit Quotes

Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

~ Criss Jami

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

~ Ben Hecht

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

~ Michel Faber

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

~ Thomas Hardy

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony. The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar,' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. The act of perception in art is an end in itself and must be prolonged. In art, it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product.

~ Victor Shklovsky

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

~ Anna White

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

~ Aristotle

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

~ A.a. Milne

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

~ Sherry Turkle

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.(Hard Candy)

~ Tennessee Williams

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

~ Samuel Beckett

Forrest Gander: Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

~ Brian Christian

As the saying goes- “Habit trumps desire”. If you are a writer, you have to be writing. Write everyday. Set targets and meet them. Keep reading, keep learning, keep growing.Do not try to be a person you are not. Great writing is genuine and true. Remember to have the time of your life while at it :-)

~ Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

~ Manoj Arora

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

~ Margaret Atwood

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

~ Fredrik Backman

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

~ Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

~ Marco G. Casteleijn

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more natural it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

~ N.t. Wright

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

~ Mark Twain

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

~ Mani S. Sivasubramanian

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

~ Plutarch

Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

~ Henna Inam

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

~ Julian Barnes

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Discipline is needed in our eating habit.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

~ Oswald Chambers

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

~ Robert Jordan

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

~ Malti Bhojwani

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

~ Chip Heath

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

~ Steven Redhead

Life is the sum of habits, only occasionally disturbed by a thought.

~ Anonymous