Habit Quotes

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Changes, Seeing, Neither

While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.
Linda McMahon

Health, Hard, While

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley Hall

Less, Creature, Activities

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Future, Character, May

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Give, Different, Action

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
Jerry Ferrara

Change, Good, Basketball

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti

Worst, Paperwork

During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.
Heidi Julavits

Work, Find, Often

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.
Brett Hoebel

Fitness, Put, Learn

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
Henry Williamson

Long, Enough, Become

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.
Mike Hawkins

Before, Become, Behavior

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson

Lost, Working, Put

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
Tycho Brahe

Before, Place, Stars

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
Savannah Guthrie

Work, Why, Clothes

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.
Jenna Jameson

Time, Good, Side

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett

Life, Here, Makes

Never permit failure to become a habit.
William Frederick Book

Failure, Become, Permit

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Francis W. Newman

School, Old, Prayer

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Alfred Doblin

Alone, Different, Others

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
William Winwood Reade

Food, May, Spirit

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo Aikman

Best, Bad, Break

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Paul Williams

Fact, Defeated, Allow

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.
Wilbur Mills

Question, President, Disappear

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Antonio de Mendoza

Truth, Lie, Made

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
Eric Taylor

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