Habit Quotes

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."

"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time."

"[Unlike Bush, Reagan did his White House radio broadcasts live, a habit that got him into trouble in 1984, when he made a now-infamous joke during a sound check into an open microphone.] My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever, ... We begin bombing in five minutes."

"Habit is stronger than reason"

"If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go"

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times."

"How use doth breed a habit in man!"

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it"

"Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it . . ."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"

"The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken."

"The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years."

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."