HABIT QUOTES

quotations about habit

Habit is a great swamp wherein men are turned to fossils.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful--how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

MARY OLIVER

"Robert Schumann," Dream Work

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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

JEROME K. JEROME

"A Man of Habit"

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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

WARREN BUFFETT

The Tao of Warren Buffett

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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

WILLIAM JAMES

Principles of Psychology

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It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

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Everybody's got a habit.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

Days to Come

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A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

STEPHEN KING

The Dark Tower

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Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

MARK TWAIN

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

JACK LALANNE

Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness

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Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

JULIEN SMITH

The Flinch


The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Mrs. Dalloway

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It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The Waste Books

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A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that's where you want to go.... We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

GARRISON KEILLOR

Pontoon

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We first make our habits and then our habits make us.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Habit", Human Life from Many Angles