Habitual Tendencies Quotes

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.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

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

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

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

Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

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.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.