Habit Quotes - page 2

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. (Henry Moore)
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. View quote
Helen Hayes
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. View quote
Mary Martin
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. View quote
Napoleon Hill
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. (Virginia Woolf)
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. View quote
Salman Rushdie
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. View quote
Audre Lorde
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. View quote
Vince Lombardi
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. View quote
Sydney Smith
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. View quote
Marcel Proust
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. (Jean Cocteau)
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years. View quote
Steven Spielberg
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. View quote
Christopher Morley
Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit. View quote
Buster Keaton
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. View quote
William James
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