Quotes about Habits

38 quotes about Habits

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, ...

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Quote by Maya Angelou about habits

My writing has to support more than my research habit, ...

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about habits

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make...

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Quote by Francis Bacon about habits

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about habits

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a...

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Quote by Dean Acheson about habits

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be...

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about habits

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the...

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about habits

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most...

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about habits

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Quote by Aristotel about habits

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quote by Aristotel about habits

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Quote by Aristotel about habits

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an...

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

Quote by Aristotel about habits

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Quote by Agatha Christie about habits

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they...

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Quote by Agatha Christie about habits

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Quote by Charles Dickens about habits

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the...

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about habits

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's...

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about habits

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about habits

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