457 Quotes About Habit

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit.

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice.

Laborious action is frequently a relic of the preacher's trade in former days.

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman—make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches . . .

Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad.

Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.

It was lucky that snarking at Luke was habit by now: Elliot remembered a line from a book he’d read once, that habit was second nature, and nature stronger than the first. It was a comfort, to have a natural expression rather than one he had to pin on.

A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.

I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.