All habit Quotes ⇑
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.Life Humor
If you want to be spiritual, seek good company and don't mix with those whose bad habits may wrongly influence youSpirituality
Repetition leads to the formation of nearly unshakable bad habits.
Remember that habits are nothing but dreams you have nurtured to enslave you.Dreams Short
Man is like a puppet. The strings of his habits, emotions, passions, and senses make him dance to their bidding. They bind his soul.Emotions Soul Passion Man
Even if you were to flee to the jungle, your old habits would be with you still. You can't run away from them, so you may as well strive to overcome them. Clear out the jungle of your wrong habits. Then you will be freeFreedom
The nature of habit can be understood by this analogy: Clay can be molded into a vase, and while the clay is still soft it is easy to change the form of that vase again and again. But once it is fired in an oven, its shape becomes firmly setChange Nature Analogy
Your thoughts are molding your actions, and your mental convictions from the repetition of those actions is the fire that hardens the thoughts into unyielding habit patternsThought
Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patternsChange Mind Thought Body
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertainedPeople
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.Anger Peace Emotions Passion
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.Heart Love
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.Book Reading
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.Short Truth
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.Life
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.Humanity
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.Reading
It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.Life Short
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.Short Kindness
Habit means fixed realities where you don't have to think. No, don't try to automatize your life. That is not efficiency. That is the efficiency of the machine. This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciouslyLife Being human Intelligence
Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses.
All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationship, money, habits - anything of importanceLife Relationship Money
When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can't put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you'd do for free
The habits you cultivated in past lives have substantially created your physical, mental, and emotional makeup in this lifePast
The man comes here [on Earth] for the sole purpose of learning to break the cords that bind his soul. Disease, failure, negation, greed, jealousy — break these bonds now. You are in a cocoon of your own bad habits, and you must be freed to spread its wings of beautiful divine qualitiesFailure Soul
True freedom consists in performing all actions - eating, reading, working, and so forth - in accordance with right judgment and choice of will, not in being compelled by habitsFreedom Choice Judgement Action
Your greatest enemies are your bad habits. They will follow you from one incarnation to another until you overcome them. In order to free yourself from fate, you must cure yourself of bad habitsEnemy
You are in a cocoon of your own bad habits, and you must be freed to spread its wings of beautiful divine qualities.Freedom
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.Mind
To be truthful to yourself is not an easy thing because there is lifetimes of habit of simply bullshitting yourself.
There is no such thing as good habits and bad habits. Habit means living life without awarenessLife Limitation
Each soul must find his way back alone. No one but you is responsible for your mistakes and habits. Once you have found your Self in your soul, you are free.Soul Mistake Responsibility
Do not overeat. Most persons die as a result of greediness and of ignorance of right dietary habits.Ignorance
Each of your habits creates a specific "groove," or pathway, in the brain. These patterns make you behave in a certain way, often against your wish. Your life follows those grooves that you yourself have created in the brainLife
All bad habits, and their enjoyer, the ego, are very tenacious and monopolizing in their claims on human beings
Mental slavery to a sense habit is the result of continued repetition of the specific act that gives birth to a particular habit.
Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it.Thought
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.Book Opinion Reading
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.Thought
The practice of introspection helps people in freeing their soul and will from ignorance, undesirable environmental influences, slavish customs, bad habits, and entanglements, by teaching them to understand and develop all the possibilities of their real soul nature, and by pointing out and eliminating their bad habits and tendenciesIgnorance
Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. 
As soon as you cater to someone's physical desires and bad habits, you are not loving that soul anymore. You are just pleasing that person to avoid ill will 
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. 
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. 
there is no such thing as good habit or bad habit. Habit means you're functioning unconsciously. If you are functioning unconsciously that's the bad thing because the whole thing about being human is we are capable of doing things consciously 
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality 
Don't keep feeding your bad habits with fresh actions that strengthen them 
Ever fed, never satisfied, never fed, ever satisfied 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. 
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
If you want to be spiritual, seek good company and don't mix with those whose bad habits may wrongly influence you
Repetition leads to the formation of nearly unshakable bad habits.
Man is like a puppet. The strings of his habits, emotions, passions, and senses make him dance to their bidding. They bind his soul.
Even if you were to flee to the jungle, your old habits would be with you still. You can't run away from them, so you may as well strive to overcome them. Clear out the jungle of your wrong habits. Then you will be free
The nature of habit can be understood by this analogy: Clay can be molded into a vase, and while the clay is still soft it is easy to change the form of that vase again and again. But once it is fired in an oven, its shape becomes firmly set
Your thoughts are molding your actions, and your mental convictions from the repetition of those actions is the fire that hardens the thoughts into unyielding habit patterns
Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patterns
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Habit means fixed realities where you don't have to think. No, don't try to automatize your life. That is not efficiency. That is the efficiency of the machine. This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciously
Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses.
All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationship, money, habits - anything of importance
When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can't put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you'd do for free
The habits you cultivated in past lives have substantially created your physical, mental, and emotional makeup in this life
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The man comes here [on Earth] for the sole purpose of learning to break the cords that bind his soul. Disease, failure, negation, greed, jealousy — break these bonds now. You are in a cocoon of your own bad habits, and you must be freed to spread its wings of beautiful divine qualities
True freedom consists in performing all actions - eating, reading, working, and so forth - in accordance with right judgment and choice of will, not in being compelled by habits
Your greatest enemies are your bad habits. They will follow you from one incarnation to another until you overcome them. In order to free yourself from fate, you must cure yourself of bad habits
You are in a cocoon of your own bad habits, and you must be freed to spread its wings of beautiful divine qualities.
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
To be truthful to yourself is not an easy thing because there is lifetimes of habit of simply bullshitting yourself.
There is no such thing as good habits and bad habits. Habit means living life without awareness
Each soul must find his way back alone. No one but you is responsible for your mistakes and habits. Once you have found your Self in your soul, you are free.
Do not overeat. Most persons die as a result of greediness and of ignorance of right dietary habits.
Each of your habits creates a specific "groove," or pathway, in the brain. These patterns make you behave in a certain way, often against your wish. Your life follows those grooves that you yourself have created in the brain
All bad habits, and their enjoyer, the ego, are very tenacious and monopolizing in their claims on human beings
Mental slavery to a sense habit is the result of continued repetition of the specific act that gives birth to a particular habit.
Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
The practice of introspection helps people in freeing their soul and will from ignorance, undesirable environmental influences, slavish customs, bad habits, and entanglements, by teaching them to understand and develop all the possibilities of their real soul nature, and by pointing out and eliminating their bad habits and tendencies