H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“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?”
Source: Table talk
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.”
“Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.”
“Habit is a form of exercise.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of ...
“Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.”
Source: The Women's Room
“Habit is a great deadener.”
“Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.”
“Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.”
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
Source: Human Happiness
“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah
“Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.”
“Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.”
“Habit is a second nature.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.”
“Habit is culture - like an egg is a hen.”
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”
“Habit is everything, even in love.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“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.”
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
“Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.”
Source: Eugene Onegin
“Habit is necessary to give power.”
Source: The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
Source: A Backward Glance
“Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“habit is our idea of eternity.”
Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
Source: The Following of Christ
“Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]”
“Habit is second nature.”
“Habit is stronger than desire.”
“Habit is stronger than nature.”
“Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]”
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy
“Habit is ten times nature.”
“Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”
Source: Proust
“Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly”
“Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.”
“Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.”
“Habit is the daily battleground of character”
“Habit is the deepest law of human nature”
Source: Past and Present
“Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.”
“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.”
“Habit is the great flywheel of society.”
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“Habit is the most imperious of all masters.”
“Habit is the nursery of errors.”
“Habit is the strongest thing in life.”
Source: You Can't Win
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.”