Quotes and Sayings About Old Habits

The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Religious #Fighting #Old Habits

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
-- Albert Camus

#Country #Travel #Old Habits

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
-- Andre Gide

#New Year #Years #Old Habits

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
-- Bruce Lee

#Old Habits #Focus #Mind

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Vacation #Old Habits #Differences

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Old Habits #Dresses #Accepting

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Expression #Old Habits #Together

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.
-- Dan Millman

#Strong #Old Habits #Mind

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.
-- David Simon

#Healing #Reality #Old Habits

Old habits are strong and jealous.
-- Dorothea Brande

#Strong #Jealous #Old Habits

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
-- Florence Griffith Joyner

#Ice Cream #Old Habits #Work Out

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.
-- Frank Baron

#Success #Unique #Old Habits

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.
-- Gerard Way

#Old Habits #Voice #Listening

You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Fall #Old Habits #Doe

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
-- Jack Kornfield

#Letting Go #Buddhism #Old Habits

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
-- Jack Kornfield

#Practice #Old Habits #Suffering

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
-- Jean Toomer

#Ideas #Old Habits #Habit

If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.
-- Lawrence Eagleburger

#Thinking #Old Habits #Years

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.
-- Maren Elwood

#Roots #Old Habits #Differences

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

#Old Habits #Habit #Kicks

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!
-- Pearl Cleage

#Old Habits #Impossible #Habit

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.
-- Raymond E. Feist

#Old Habits #Forget #Habit

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
-- Robert Fulghum

#Fall #Old Habits #Mad

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Old Habits #Bones #Beats

As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.
-- Shakti Gawain

#Old Habits #Long #Trying

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.
-- Simon Winchester

#Old Habits #Honest #Deadline

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
-- Therese Anne Fowler

#Old Habits #People #Habit

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
-- Wayne Dyer

#Inspirational #Motivational #Old Habits

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.
-- William Ernest Hocking

#Old Habits #Knowing #Desire

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
-- Yulia Tymoshenko

#Thinking #Old Habits #Remember