Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.
Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.
In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.
Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.
People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.