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.

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.

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....

Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel...

Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it’s going to be better than before!

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

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

Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever...

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

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

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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

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

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...

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

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you

After every storm it’s always my habit to look up at the eagle and see just how bad it was. There was a lot of debris on the ground, and sure enough, he’s was turned...

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

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Winning’s a habit and not winning’s a habit, … The important thing is to get back into that good habit of winning.

Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it’s cage; it will be hard to capture it again!

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

I am a creature of habit.

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am...

YOU FEAR TO DIE?”It’s not that I don’t want… I mean, I’ve always…it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break…

He doesn’t seem to be able to stay out of trouble. I think he’ll get out of that habit, though. I think the coaches let him know that he’ll stay out of trouble or he...

As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He...

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we...

What times! What habits!

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare...

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they’re returning. It is in the...

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.

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

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

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

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...

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

As you grow old, if you don’t earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

Winning’s a habit and not winning’s a habit. The important thing is to get back into that good habit of winning.

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun...

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...

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman—make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them...

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks...