Bad Habits Quotes

“The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.”
― Alain de Botton

“Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!”
― Victoria addino

“There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.”
― Martha Brockenbrough

“People who self-handicap purposely shoot themselves in the foot in order to protect themselves from having to confront their possible shortcomings. Many self-handicapping behaviors are those small, subtle bad habits like being late, gossiping, micromanaging, behaving passive-aggressively, or being a perfectionist. We may not recognize these self-defeating--and self-handicapping--traits for what they are. Or we may even wrongly perceive them as strengths. But in truth, they often get in the way of us blooming.”
― Rich Karlgaard, Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”
― Og Mandino

“Losing does not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Well, I don't think she does have pleasure, it is just a bad habit”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Karma will forgive your shortcomings not your sins.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We're either making good habits or bad habits. We're either training our minds to be unfocused and unhappy, or we're training them to find peace and happiness within.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.”
― Shunya

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.”
― Peggy Randall-Martin

“I know for a fact that he regularly steals from self-checkouts and sticks his gum underneath desks. Those are not the actions of a moral person.”
― Chloe Seager, Dating Disasters of Emma Nash

“People don't hate your limits, they hate your habits.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The attention you give to your bad habits is the fountain from which they draw their strength.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Stay away from addictions in life or addictions will take you away from life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When quitting becomes routine, you won’t think twice about giving up the next time.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle. (...) There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.”
― Clive Staples Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Life is a daily battle with people and things that are trying to change us and those that are trying to prevent us from changing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I have tried to drink this pain away,
to smoke it away,
to write it away.
I tried to make it numb,
I tried to run away from it,
I tried to fight it.
But everything I tried to escape
found me in my sleep
again.”
― Mandy K., The Final Stroke

“God loves to use our bad habits to bring about His good.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“Ορίστε άνθρωπος που θέλει να σώσει την πατρίδα και δεν μπορεί να σωθεί αυτός από μιαν τιποτένια συνήθεια" και κοίταξε το τσιγάρο.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“No amount of junk food and junk web content can substitute for the love and affection that you need.”
― Shunya

“If you can earn money, your 99 bad habits could be ignored. If not, none of your good habits will build your reputation.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Many bad health habits are taught and ingrained generationally.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“A person's bad habit
is often misunderstood by
close people, even those
who are more prone to this habit.”
― Srinivas mishra

“It's easy, during those moments, to throw in the towel. To shrug off humanity. To tell yourself that you tried to be happy, and look what happened: more pain. Worse pain. Betrayed by the world. You realize then that anger is safer than kindness, that isolation is safer than community. You shut everything out. Everyone. But some days, no matter what you do, the pain gets so bad you'd bury yourself alive just to make it stop.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Watch out. Excuses can be habit forming.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“We are vulnerable,because of being good, good food, comfort zone, quit all these nonsense and see life will be much more spectacular!!!”
― Mishra Umakant

“I decided that if I wanted to be on God’s good side I better try to be a good person, so I spent the year trying to work to earn the favor, forgiveness, and right standing that God had (obviously) already given me. I traded all of my bad habits for good ones. I traded the negative influences in my life for positive ones. I became a spiritual seeker.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.”
― Scott C. Holstad