Habit Quotes
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Happiness never becomes a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
