Habits Quotes

The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.

~ Aziz Gazipura

Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.

~ Marian Deegan

Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You can live in the body you wish, exercise daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live a healthy life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people love to mentally bully others into feeling inferior. Sadly, they often succeed in doing so because a lot of people aren't in the habit of defining their true self-worth.

~ Hafiz

Never let those who are very accustomed to playing small, talk you out of the habit of dreaming big.

~ Hafiz

A negative habit is a matter of frequent negative thoughts and beliefs in one's mind, but never a result of the complexion of one's skin.

~ Hafiz

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

~ Nicole Krauss

We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.

~ Chris Matakas

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

~ John Mark Reynolds

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.

~ N.t. Wright

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

~ N.t. Wright

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

~ Thomas Hughes

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

~ Lucretia Mott

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

~ S.d. Lawendowski

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

~ Criss Jami

Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

~ T. Colin Campbell

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

~ George Eliot

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Make your habits your beloved home.

~ Debasish Mridha

Positive mindset, positive lifestyle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.

~ Luther Burbank

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

~ Charles Duhigg

We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don’t demand it at all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Old habits for old people, reinvent yourself while you still can!

~ T.f. Hodge

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

~ Bryant Mcgill

Old Ways May Not Give You UpAn elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Islam by discarding the very beliefs in spirits and mystical inanimate objects that have held our societies together for more three centuries. He threw his fetishes in a nearby lake. Sadly he turned and walked away from the lake and the traditions. As the elder walked away, the fetishes leaped out of the lake onto his back again to reclaim him.“Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

~ James M. Robinson

She tugged the sleeves down over her hands, stretching the fabric until the seams reached her fingernails. Then she locked her fingers around them to ensure they stayed down.Veda fought the urge to rip those sleeves from Coco’s grip and force her to wear them appropriately, or at the very least roll them up so she wouldn’t be tempted to yank at them. She could remember a time when she’d had the same habit, back in middle school. As if hiding her hands behind a thin piece of fabric would protect her from the world.

~ Trevion Burns

The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell.

~ Steve Maraboli

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

~ Mike Carey

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

~ Dean M. Schroeder

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

~ Kevin Thoman