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.

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

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

The UK has adopted the American habit of credit with vigor, and consequently consumers are rapidly getting in over their heads.

Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.

Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony....

I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn’t mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

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

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

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

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

A lot of horses have become resistant to the virus and the owners have improved their vaccinating habits.

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.

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions...

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn’t make sense to others, but it’s not for them. It’s what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

We got in that habit of being too protective and not wanting to give something up. When you think like that, you get yourself into that, as they say in football terminology, ‘prevent defense.’ You can play defense as long as you’re aggressive. I thought we did a good job of that in the first...

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!

In life, one’s habits determines one’s habitation in the long run

Don’t be stuck in a life that’s not yours just because of a bad habit

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

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 one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because...

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself

India has this habit of dragging Pakistan into things it is not at all involved in,

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body’s natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon...

Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

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

We know that implementing the convention will not be easy, as smoking is an ingrained habit in China, but the government has made clear its commitment to take action.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.(“Hard Candy”)

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 me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn’t ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins,And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, ‘Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save...

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

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.

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