100 Quotes About Habit

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. — Bill W. Bill W.

To be 100% at all times is like a mirage in the desert of frustration. Enjoy your conquest and rest your mind. This will never be in vain. Unknown

Achievements must be highlights and not forgotten. So you always will have to rely in something on your frustrations. Unknown

We want a money-back guarantee before we take a step of obedience, but that eliminates faith from the equation. Sometimes we need to take a flying leap of faith. We need to step into the conflict without knowing if we can resolve it. We need to share our faith without knowing how our friends will react to it. We need to pray for a miracle without knowing how God will answer. We need to put ourselves in a situation that activates a spiritual gift we've never exercised before. And we need to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. If we want to discover new lands, we've got to lose sight of the shore. We've got to leave the Land of Familiarity behind. We've got to sail past the predictable. And when we do, we develop a spiritual hunger for the unprecedented and lose our appetite for the habitual. We also get a taste of God's favor. Mark Batterson

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. Octavia E. Butler

The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you–whether you know it consciously or not. Grace Sara

People try to get off the hook by giving excuses. Actually the reason why they are doing that is to try and get rid of the guilt which invariably accompanies such acts. They are trying to lessen their burden by passing on the responsibility on to others. They mix up excuse with reason. An excuse is an excuse and most certainly not a reason. Be careful while accepting excuses because you may unwittingly take on responsibilities which were not yours in the first place. There’s another type of excuse- the one you give to yourself. You don’t want to get up early in the morning, or you don’t feel like exercising, or you don’t want to mow the lawn and so on, therefore you will try and justify your action on the pretext that you slept late or couldn’t sleep properly or you have some imaginary ailment or the sky is overcast etc. Actually you are trying to get rid of that guilty feeling of not doing what you ought to have done. Latika Teotia

The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle. J.R. Rim

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. Krista Tippett

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature. Craig D. Lounsbrough

All the tough lessons in life are meant for negative ending to positive beginning. Like fall to spring. During such time nature warn us to alter everything in our life including mind. Such transformation are vital and essential. If we don't alter nature create force of destruction. Aditya Ajmera

Excellence is not an event but a habit. Debasish Mridha

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. Criss Jami

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought. A.J. Darkholme

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in. Sylvia Boorstein

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. Charles Duhigg

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint. Charles Eisenstein

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff. Criss Jami

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it. A.J. Darkholme

The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit–to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe–a different Story of the World. . Charles Eisenstein

There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning. Carew Papritz

We are the sum total of our choices. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going. Alyse M. Gardner

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. Unknown

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best. Amit Kalantri

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby. Amit Kalantri

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do. Amit Kalantri

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question. Michael Bassey Johnson

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision. Criss Jami

Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change. Charles Duhigg

Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere. Michael Bassey Johnson

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Stephen R. Covey

Despise your weakness, not yourself. Constance Chuks Friday

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices. Amit Ray

Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future. Michael Bassey Johnson

Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before! Israelmore Ayivor

A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his mind's lit up Another one burns a hole.. Sanhita Baruah

Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done. Itohan Eghide

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still. H.W. Brands

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. Elizabeth George

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn. Michael Bassey Johnson

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit. A.J. Darkholme

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different. Sarah Addison Allen

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found. Elizabeth George

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make. Sarah Dessen

I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself. Marcel Proust

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably. Israelmore Ayivor

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious! Israelmore Ayivor

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought. Criss Jami

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses. Israelmore Ayivor

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark. Israelmore Ayivor

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail! Israelmore Ayivor

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor. Bamigboye Olurotimi

People assume that repetition is always a static thing, but I beg to differ. Repetition is just as often the complete opposite of that: or a sign of rapid personal growth. In this repetition manifests one's ability to go on experiencing again the very same thing from a different perspective and in a brand-new light. Criss Jami

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass! Israelmore Ayivor

Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more. Are your habits working for you or against you? Are your habits helping you to achieve your goals or hindering the process? Miya Yamanouchi

Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit. Michael Eisner

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit. Napoleon Hill

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. Christian D. Larson

Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation must recover these emotional seeds of the dramatization of life if real control of habits is to occur. Otherwise, mere control of habits will itself become a form of dramatized conflict or warfare with the motives of our lives. Food desires, sex desires, relational desires, desires for experience and acquisition, for rest, for release, for attention, for solitude, for life, for death, the whole pattern of desires must come under the view of consciousness, the aspects of the conflicts must be differentiated, and habits must be controlled to serve well-being or the pleasurable and effective play of Life.This whole process is truly possible only in the midst of the prolonged occasion of spiritual life in practice, since the mere mechanical and analytical attempts at self-liberation and self-healing do not undermine the principal emotion or seat of conflict, which is the intention to identify with a separate self sense and to reject and forget the prior and natural Condition of Unqualified or Divine Consciousness. . Adi Da Samraj

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school. S.A. Tawks

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts. . Wallace Stegner

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them. Marian Deegan

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. Aristotle

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether. A.J. Darkholme

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change. A.J. Darkholme

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal. Alexis De Tocqueville

Shaving was invented to kill time before a date. Unknown

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all. J.m. Barrie

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers. Joseph J. Ellis

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in the bodily realm and those in cultural programes. From the start, nature and culture are linked by a broad middle ground of embodied practices - containing languages, rituals and technical skills, in so far as these factors constitute the universal forms of automatized artificialities. This intermediate zone forms a morphologically rich, variable and stable region that can, for the time being, be referred to sufficiently clearly with such conventional categories as education, etiquette, custom, habit formation, training and exercise - without needing to wait for the purveyors of the 'human sciences', who, with all their bluster about culture, create the confusion for whose resolution they subsequently offer their services. Peter Sloterdijk

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person. Michael Bassey Johnson

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone. Michael Bassey Johnson

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk — that anyone not walking it with us is being misled. A.J. Darkholme

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience. Salil Jha

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right. Jim Bouton

Be comfortable with being uncomfortable with negative habits. Unknown

Some people love to mentally bully others into feeling inferior. Sadly, they often succeed in doing so because a lot of people aren't in the habit of defining their true self-worth. Unknown

Never let those who are very accustomed to playing small, talk you out of the habit of dreaming big. Unknown

Success is always the final outcome when one adopts the habit of embracing each day with a high level of enthusiasm and productivity. Unknown

The true beauty of life can only be seen by the eye of habitual positive interpretations of one's experiences. Unknown

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more. S.D. Lawendowski

As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body's natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon it by others or by himself will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time. This may happen without any attempt to undergo an elaborate system of self-discipline on his part: yet it will affect his way of living, his diet, his habits. False cravings like the craving for smoking tobacco will vanish of their own accord; false appetites like the appetite for alcoholic liquor or flesh food will likewise vanish; but the more deep-seated the desire, the longer it will take to uproot it--except in the case of some who will hear and answer a heroic call for an abrupt change. Paul Brunton