Bad Habits Quotes - Page 2

• The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

  Jerome Hines

  Way, Habit

  Jerome Hines (1997). “The Four Voices of Man”, p.4, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

  Ben Kingsley

  Fall, Character, Thinking

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

  Harvey Mackay

  Addiction, Benefits, Rewards

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Habit

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

  Eubie Blake

  People, Might, Habit

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Giving

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

  Jack Canfield

  Habit, Results

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• My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

  Layne Staley

  Titles, Talent, Habit

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Flesh, Way

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• Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Healthy Habits, Deny

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• Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Cutting, Habit, Organs

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• You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

  Mark Twain

  Window, Habit, Break

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

  Carlos Santana

  People, Excuse, Habit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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'.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Fitness Motivational, Two, Together

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• The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

  Jack Nicholson

  Smoking, Way, Cigar

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• To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fall, Habit, Cease

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.225, Princeton University Press

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• When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.

  Barbara Hamby

  Beautiful, Thinking, Choices

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Habit, Caught

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• In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Habit, Contagious, Measles

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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