The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit – Qui nous va à vie.)

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.

He has a billionaire’s spending habit, but a millionaire’s budget.

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think – and to feel – such melancholy things.

Nothing seems crazy when you’re used to it.

By the practice of being honorable in small things each day, one eventually becomes honorable in all things every day!!!

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war –so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points...

As a society we have a habit of saying a little drug experimentation is OK for young people when they venture off onto their own. In actuality the experimentation affects everyone and often times leads...

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

I don’t think it’s time yet. We need to convert a lot more people to the habit of buying music online. I don’t think a way to convert more people is to raise the price.

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At...

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you’ll ever be published or paid or even that you’ll be able to finish the particular work you’ve begun. It...

Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner Voice; and you are assured of unshakable Peace and infinite Joy.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until...

We are the sum total of our choices.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself

You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we’re taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

Forrest Gander: “Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green...

This won’t be a habit for us. It’s over. It’s done. All that losing ended today.

I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits.

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie: when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

My bad habits aren’t my title, my strengths and talents are my title.

[Unlike Bush, Reagan did his White House radio broadcasts live, a habit that got him into trouble in 1984, when he made a now-infamous joke during a sound check into an open microphone.] My fellow...

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart.

I believe Jesus wasn’t thinking about miracle when He performed it. He’s just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Act not just react. Take ‘HE’ out of ‘WHINE,’ you get ‘WIN.’ Spare yourself from the trap of the destructive habit called ‘complaining.