Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

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.

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

And never, never, dear madam, put ‘Wednesday’ simply as the date! That way madness lies!

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

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

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...

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through...

Excellence is a lifestyle, not a coincidence.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit...

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren’t the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more “natural”...