Habit Quotes

Winning is a habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

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

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Character is long-standing habit.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.