Habit Quotes

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

For no amount of exercise, or habit, or volition, in the utterly sterile members of a community could possibly affect the structure or instincts of the fertile members, which alone leave descendants. I am surprised that no one has advanced this demonstrative case of neuter insects, against the well-known doctrine of Lamarck.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.