Habits Quotes

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Thinking, Brain, Lazy

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

Nothing, Needs, Reforming

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Bad, After

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle

Good, Youth, Difference

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad, Break, Easier

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
Marilyn Monroe

Eating, Bizarre, Absolutely

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Thought, Old

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

Bad, Talk, Excuses

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
Bo Bennett

Time, Bad, Together

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand

Change, Work, Woman

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sympathy, Feelings, Different

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich

Rather, Beliefs

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

Time, Done, Order

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

Thoughts, Cannot, Old

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Simply

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey

Character, Daily, Often

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James

Give, Young, Become

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Love, Humor

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Bad, Give

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin

Hairy, Descended

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Soul, Forms

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Nothing, Fact

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell

Mind, Rather, Discipline

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Character, Live

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Health, Care, Moral

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

Anger, Thought, General

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Writing, Broken

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman

End, Start, Hopes

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays

Society, Important, Opinions

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