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Habit Quotes

"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Habit, Custom, Nothing

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"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky."

Tycho Brahe, Danish Scientist

Habit, Sky, Stars

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"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."

Rich Little, Canadian Comedian

Habit, President

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"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past."

Matt Blunt, American Politician

Habit, Habits, Past, Present

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"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Habit, Night, Years

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"You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way."

Al Kaline, American Athlete

Habit, Habits, Play, Right

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."

Mick Jagger, English Musician

Habit, Habits, Tea

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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."

Horace Mann, American Educator

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"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."

Alcee Hastings, American Politician

Habit, Church, Freedom, Religious

"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

Habit, Living, Quotation

"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions."

Frederick Robertson, English Clergyman

Habit, Habits, Opinions

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint

"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Habit, Being, Earth, Names

"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."

Charles Simmons, American Author

Habit, Attention, Duty, Energy

"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

Habit, Melancholy, Will

"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Habit, Perfection

"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

Habit, Order, Talk

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

Habit, Mind, Unconscious

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

William James, American Philosopher

Habit, Habits, State, Walking, Will

"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Habit, Habits, Laws

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."

Balthazar Getty, American Actor

"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."

Henry Moore, English Sculptor

Habit, Creation, Excitement, Obsession

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."

G. Stanley Hall, American Psychologist

Habit, Environment, Man

"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear."

Wilbur Mills, American Politician

Habit, President, Question

"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."

Leo Aikman, American Writer

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

David Lloyd George, Welsh Statesman

Habit, Liberty, Privilege

"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

Habit, Habits, Novelty

"Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit."

Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

Habit, Swearing

"Vices are often habits rather than passions."

Antoine Rivarol, French Journalist

Habit, Habits, Vices

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

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

"Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings."

Evan Esar, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Study

"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."

Mike Ditka, American Coach

"Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct."

Henry Williamson, English Author

Habit, Instinct, Water

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Mark Twain, American Author

Habit, People, Habits, Needs, Nothing

"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."

Mike Hawkins, American Author

Habit, Behavior

"I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper."

Eric Taylor, American Musician

"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."

David James Elliott, Canadian Actor

Habit, Habits, School, Theater

"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

Habit, Thinking

"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."

Charles A. Jaffe, American Journalist

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Habit, Water, Will

"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."

Martin Henderson, New Zealander Actor

Habit, American, Coach, Months

"Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water."

John Leech, English Artist

Habit, Excuses, Water

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Habit, Habits, World, Worth

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Living

"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

Habit, Adversity, Emotions, Enjoyment

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