Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.
Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis. . . exhausts the material offered to it.