Mental Habit Quotes

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.