Habit Quotes - Page 8

• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Winning, Expectations

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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• There would be no bohemia without smoking.

  David Hockney

  Smoking, Would Be, Bohemia

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• Pursuits become habits.
  [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

  Ovid

  Pursuit

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• predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Consistency, Predicaments

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dog, Chains, Ballast

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Positive Thinking, Mma, Get Better

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.

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• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Snacks, Peculiar

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Mind, Important, Gains

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• And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Thinking, Style

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• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, Two, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

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• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

  Steven Biko

  Perseverance, Lying, Dedication

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• Habit is stronger than nature.
  [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Stronger

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• The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Peace, Sex, Practice

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• We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  Life, Peace, Achievement

  American Magazine, Vol. 103, (p. 183), 1927.

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• We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Steel, Band, Sin

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• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

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• To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Bears, Impatience, Should

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• As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Personality, Quality, Virtue

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Practice, Dumb

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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