Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The...

Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself!

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it’s cage; it will be hard to capture it again!

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun...

The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.

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.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his...

But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the...

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you...

Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

If you change your habits, you change your results.

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!

First we form habits, then they form us.

Sometimes I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent...

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize...

Make your habits your beloved home.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don’t want to do.

Le pays latins, comme les pays d’Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change your daily thoughts, they can influence your habits! Beware of evil companions!

You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

You move on. You move back. On because you’re always getting older, back because there’s always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to...

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don’t consciously form good ones, we...

For Aristotle, it’s not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

A negative habit is a matter of frequent negative thoughts and beliefs in one’s mind, but never a result of the complexion of one’s skin.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am...

Today might be the best chance you have to take action. The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable. It...

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Old habits die hard. Especially if those old habits involve murder and death.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.