H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“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.”
“Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]”
“Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.”
“Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.”
“Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.”
“Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.”
“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.”
Source: The Heart of William James
“Habit, torpor, and the pervasive desire of employees not to risk their careers and pensions by making the wrong decision: these are the main ingredients in the mixture that gives international law its great binding strength.”
Source: International Law: A Very Short Introduction
“Habit was stronger than emotion.”
Source: The Uninvited
“Habit will reconcile us to everything but change”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.”
“Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”
“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”
Source: Swann's Way
“Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.”
“habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
“Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly”
“Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.”
“Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.”
Source: The Heat of the Day
“Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.”
“Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.”
“Habit: A shackle for the free.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Habit: Often mistaken for love.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“Habit: The great economizer of energy.”
“Habitamos el cuerpo, ese equipaje molesto; en realidad no sabemos nada de él y necesitamos emplear diferentes herramientas a fin de conocer sus procesos más sencillos. La última vez que el médico quiso saber qué pasaba en mi estómago me pidió que me hiciera una gastroscopia, lo cual me pareció un escándalo. Tuve que tragarme un tubo muy grueso y sólo entonces, con ayuda de una cámara, el interior de mi estómago se hizo visible. La única herramienta que nos han reglado como premio de consolación, tosca y primitiva, es el dolor"
Si existen los ángeles, se estarán partiendo de risa con nosotros: recibieron un cuerpo y no saben nada de él. Se lo dieron sin instrucciones de uso.”
Source: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
“Habitat for Humanity is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I am proud to be a part of the partnership between Whirlpool and Habitat and appreciate everything these two organizations are doing for the wonderful Nashville community and other communities throughout the world.”
“Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.”
“Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.”
“Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.”
“Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.”
Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
“Habite en ti la serenidad, la ausencia de necesidad de ayuda externa y de la tranquilidad que procuran otros. Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.”
“Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.”
“Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You’ll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You’ll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.”
“Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”
“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.”
“Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.”
Source: Bacon's Essays
“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”
Source: See You at the Top
“Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.”
“Habits are happiness of a sort...”
“Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.”
“Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.”
“Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.”
“Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.”
Source: The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand