Habits Quotes

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin

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

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.

Lucas Remmerswaal

Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.

Mark Twain

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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

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

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

Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.

George Crabbe

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Dr. Rob Gilbert

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

John Dewey

How use doth breed a habit in man!

William Shakespeare

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Agatha Christie