Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits, and character.

Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit

Habit is overcome by habit

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

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

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

The habit of saying thank you is the mark of a cultivated mind.

We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

Character is long-standing habit.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You’ve got to clean up your act. You know you’ve gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you’ve got to get into rehab.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

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

Habit is a second nature which destroys the first

Habit is a second nature which destroys the first

That was pretty much my life. I’d say, ‘Mama, how come some people ain’t nice?’ She’d say, ‘Well, probably because they wasn’t breastfed.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

People would rather go down before changing their habits.

Everybody has told me to rap and perform freestyle. I had the habit of going to the park and spitting on the microphone. They would always give me the microphone if I went to the park.

Reach for partners that make you better. Do not bring people into your life who weigh you down. Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt