Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.
I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Home is where my habits have a habitat
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal. ' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.