Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

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

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.