Quotes about Habit

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to.