Negative Habits Quotes

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

Don't water your weeds.

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

How many of us have these demons or habits or things we don't like about ourselves and understand the loops that we're in and yet are unable to break out of them and create lasting change within ourselves?

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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

Vices are their own punishment

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.