Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Votes: 4
George Washington CarverHabit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] Votes: 3
Quintus Curtius RufusPeople can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people. Votes: 3
Bret Easton EllisHabit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Votes: 3
Jane HirshfieldGuard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. Votes: 3
George SantayanaProfessors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. Votes: 3
Hal BoyleHabit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. Votes: 3
Jose MartiHabit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. Votes: 3
Letitia Elizabeth LandonHabit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroHabit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. Votes: 3
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeHabit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. Votes: 3
Elizabeth BowenHabit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Votes: 3
Horace MannHabit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth. Votes: 3
George CrabbeWinners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Votes: 2
Brian TracyA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Votes: 2
Thomas PaineA habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. Votes: 2
Mark TwainCultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project. Votes: 0
Abigail Van BurenA primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence. Votes: 0
Ralph Alfred HabasThought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellPainting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Votes: 0
Robert SmithsonNo particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayGrowing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial. Votes: 0
Charles Spurgeon[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielThirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit Votes: 0
John Warren KindtPhilosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenUnless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannCocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years" Votes: 0
Tallulah BankheadI never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleDetermination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonExchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeThinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinLately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. Votes: 0
Rohinton MistryThe habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 0
Charles DickensNever give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Votes: 0
Sydney SmithFor many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction... Votes: 0
Peter McWilliamsI'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. Votes: 0
Ben ElliotThe habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy. Votes: 0
Paul KrugmanPut God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaOver time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpWe want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. Votes: 0
Filippo Tommaso MarinettiWinners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Votes: 0
Albert L. GrayIt's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerMan has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Votes: 0
Alistair CookeBefore something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline. Votes: 0
Ken BlanchardFrom old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamWhether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. Votes: 0
Lucille BallVirtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfStatistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. Votes: 0
George Bernard Shawhere in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. Votes: 0
Edna FerberLife has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. Votes: 0
David GerroldMathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." Votes: 0
G. H. HardyMake a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking. Votes: 0
Brian TracyI think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. Votes: 0
Guillermo del ToroReminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish. Votes: 0
C. J. MahaneyStatisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. Votes: 0
George E. P. BoxDon't be stuck in a life that's not yours just because of a bad habit Votes: 0
Constance Chuks FridayPower is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellIt is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldGet the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect. Votes: 0
David J. SchwartzGet into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance. Votes: 0
Oswald ChambersAs idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. Votes: 0
Michael LewisChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 0
Francis BaconEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinSpending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. Votes: 0
Sharon HorganCreativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpCreativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpPrayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonPositive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time. Votes: 0
Alexander GustafssonDeliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergThe use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. Votes: 0
Jean-Claude JunckerApologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror Votes: 0
Jonathan LethemPerhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. Votes: 0
Storm JamesonOrders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. Votes: 0
Theodore DalrympleMake a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantMake a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantThe negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths Votes: 0
Che GuevaraI wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things. Votes: 0
Gilbert GottfriedI know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands . Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawJust as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. Votes: 0
Jose SaramagoThere is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. Votes: 0
David Starr JordanNo, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyWe keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It's a male habit. Votes: 0
Michael OndaatjeI avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that's a phobia but also a habit. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyGive yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit! Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantLiberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Votes: 0
David Lloyd GeorgeWhen one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinLove that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranThere is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonHoly joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. Votes: 0
Ann VoskampThere is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else. Votes: 0
Will RogersIf you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleEverything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing. Votes: 0
Wilt ChamberlainShe had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. Votes: 0
Alyssa KressDon't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. Votes: 0
Eric ThomasNow I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeYouth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingI put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart. Votes: 0
Jessica FortunatoLife has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. Votes: 0
Woody GuthrieChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettI want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord. Votes: 0
Joni Eareckson TadaIt became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. Votes: 0
Paul AusterIt is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollThe saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit. Votes: 0
Anthony NewleySome day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break. Votes: 0
Imtiaz DharkerI am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. Votes: 0
Ted CruzLife how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. Votes: 0
V. S. PritchettHe who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasPlacing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character Votes: 0
Orlando Aloysius BattistaI won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Votes: 0
Andre MauroisIf you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real. Votes: 0
Charles DuhiggA bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make Votes: 0
Boonaa MohammedThe chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIf you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones. Votes: 0
lecraeCreating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it Votes: 0
Seth GodinYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
Gautama BuddhaRise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
George WashingtonWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Samuel BeckettThe hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
Doug HenningEase leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
George CrabbeThe habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
Napoleon HillThe chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William HazlittThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony TrollopeTo be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
George ForemanThat bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.
Mary Russell MitfordThe successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Thomas A. EdisonGaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Thomas JeffersonSimplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.
John ClimacusIn writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
John Steinbeck...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
Jose SaramagoIt is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Josh BillingsPeople had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.
Marilyn MonroeSometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.
Mira Grantwe need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments
Richard CarlsonYou can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
Brian TracyThe Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
Charles DuhiggI liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.
Christoffer BoeDiscipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.
George S. PattonJohn Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.
Stephen ColbertMy worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
Eva LongoriaMost men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
Garrison KeillorAny habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
Napoleon HillA habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas MerrillWe follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
Errico MalatestaAn important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
Friedrich NietzscheThe habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
Napoleon HillNever get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.
Robin SharmaI have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.
Wladyslaw BartoszewskiThis is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
Charles DuhiggYou do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.
David RyanCreative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.
Marie ForleoIn fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.
Sylvester StalloneI do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
Winston ChurchillWe're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
Orson Scott CardThe wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
A.C. GraylingIf you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
Charles R. SwindollAh, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
Peter S. BeagleTo quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
Sam SneadIt's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.
Roberto BenigniA habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. ClarkThe satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
Miguel de UnamunoThe Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.
Tom FittonAssuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
Alice MeynellYou have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLilloI have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Elbert HubbardExcellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva CollinsWhen poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
Saib TabriziTastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg C. LichtenbergPoint is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
Jonathan MaberryThe man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.
Lettie CowmanCakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryEvery time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Nana MouskouriThe trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
Gary W. KellerWhat you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.
John SpenceSuccess is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.
Ralph MarstonGet in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.
Devra DavisNothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
EpictetusI was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J. R. R. TolkienIt 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. JeromeGay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.
Judy GrahnHabit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria EdgeworthI had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
Stan GetzProcrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Votes: 1 Napoleon Hill