Samuel Beckett Quotes

Habits are more powerful than fears.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.