Quotes for Habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

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

I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.

Jake Paul

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

Crystal Gayle

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

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

Loretta Young

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

Margaret Atwood

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

George Gurdjieff

I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets, and my interest grew. He put me in a club, seeing this. My habit grew from that point.

Babar Azam

Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

Shiv Khera

Probably my worst habit is, when I get really stressed out, down to the wire, and Im trying to find clothes or find something, literally anything, I throw everything everywhere, and I dont pick it up because Im in that anxious space, still.

Renee Rapp

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

John Singer Sargent

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

Tommy Morrison

I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.

Bernard Hopkins