Habits Quotes

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Edward C. Banfield

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

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

Charles Robert Darwin