Habits Quotes

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

~ Richard J. Foster

Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits.

~ Farshad Asl

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

~ Bryant Mcgill

After a bad trip, don't carry your luggage on board the next flight. Stay grounded til you figure out a new way to travel.

~ T.f. Hodge

The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.

~ Edward O. Sisson

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

~ Robert J. Allison

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.

~ Gretchen Rubin

All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

~ Julien Smith

Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.

~ Drishti Bablani

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

~ Manoj Arora

As the uneasiness and... reluctance to face [his problems] cut him off more and more from all real happiness... habit renders the pleasures of vanity and excitement and flippancy at once less pleasant and harder to forgo... All the healthy and outgoing activities [he shouldn't want to avoid] can be inhibited and nothing given in return, so that at last he may... I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. The Christians describe [Heavenly Father] as one without whom Nothing is strong. And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in [dire] sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them... in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.

~ C.s. Lewis

Your brain loves habits because they are simple, structured, well-known, energy efficient, quick, and automatic.

~ Stan Jacobs

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons.

~ Roman Payne

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Upholders may struggle in situations where expectations aren't clear or the rules aren't established. They may feel compelled to meet expectations, even ones that seem pointless. They may feel uneasy when they know they're breaking the rules, even unnecessary rules, unless they work out a powerful justification to do so.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

~ Chris Matakas

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

~ Christian D. Larson

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

~ Idries Shah

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

~ H.w. Brands

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

~ Thomas À Kempis

One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn’t true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you don’t have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply a habitual part of what you do every day. That is why I emphasize the five habits of stress management, not the five rules or the five goals. If you make these five habits an essential part of your life, then you will be able to manage stress effectively.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

~ John Irving

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

~ Philip Roth

Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

~ William James

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

~ Henna Inam

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

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

~ Therese Anne Fowler

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

~ Marcel Proust

Habits aren’t destiny. Habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But the reason the discovery of the habit loop is so important is that it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.

~ Charles Duhigg

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

~ Albert Camus

If a stranger saying we are dependable activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all know that praise is a good thing, as long as it isn't too unconditional, but until very recently, we had no idea that praise taps into the same reinforcement system in the brain that enables cheese to help rats learn to solve mazes. And positive social regard is a renewable resource. Rather than having less of something after using it, when we let others know we value them, both parties have more.

~ Matthew D. Lieberman

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv