Habit Quotes

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Mind, Reason

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Great, Young

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

Strong, Broken, Until

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Making, Democratic, Societies

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin

Thinking, Start, Thoughtful

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young

Giving, Credit, Rewards

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke

Long, Living, Soul

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James A. Baldwin

Live, Living, Stop

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois

Character, Destiny, Act

Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

Character, Long, Simply

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus

Another, Overcome, Driven

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin

History, Made, Often

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Time, Mind, Become

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust

Nature, Knowing, Second

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Living, Old, Dead

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann

Cannot, Last, Break

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard

Bad, Someone, Single

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde

Love, Women, Black

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

Motivation, Started, Keeps

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman

Success, Courage, Failure

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle

Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana

Reason, Stronger

There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Gilbert Parker

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

Love, Music, Less

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair

Respect, Fear, Failure

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May

Human, Lost, Run

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
Mason Cooley

Success, Hard, Acquire

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

Alone, Human, Frame

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins

Great, Crisis, Him

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid

Powerful, Nothing, Custom

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