Quotes about Habit

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. He