Habit Quotes - page 3

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (James Allen)
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. View quote
Charles Reade
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know-I've been using it for years. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. View quote
Thomas Browne
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. View quote
Helen Keller
And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd. (William Wordsworth)
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. View quote
Drew Barrymore
How use doth breed a habit in a man. View quote
William Shakespeare
Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. View quote
Mark Twain
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. (Aldous Huxley)
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. View quote
Voltaire
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. View quote
Christopher Morley
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. View quote
Henry van Dyke