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"habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." »Mark Twain
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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." »Herbert Kaufman
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"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy." »Napolean Hill
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"Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says ‘Here are the rules,’ do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings." »The Buddha
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"Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny." »Frances E. Willard
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"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." »Charles Reade
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"Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny." »George Dana Boardman
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"We say the name of God, but that is only habit." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"Break the leg of a bad habit." »Puerto Rican Proverb
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"Nothing is stronger than habit." »Ovid
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"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." »Author Unknown
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man." »William Shakespeare
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." »Aristotle
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!" »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." »Aristotle
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"Motivation is what gets you started. habit is what keeps you going." »Jim Ryun
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"habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." »Nathaniel Emmons
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"habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth." »George Crabbe
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"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do." »Shaquille ONeal
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." »Jules Renard
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"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off." »Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)
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"Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate." »Oscar Levant
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"Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing." »Vince Lombardi
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"Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit." »Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
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"habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself." »Evenus
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"The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." »Hippocrates, Epidemics
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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." »Peter Ustinov
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