Habit
"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." - Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Custom reconciles us to everything." - Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." - Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution
"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them." - Confucius, Analects
"Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit." - Epicetus, Encheiridion
"Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor." - William James, The Principles of Psychology
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson
"Small habits well pursued betimes
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?" - Barbara Streisland
"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, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)
"For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince and the Discourses
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain
"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be." - MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, The Tragic Sense of Life
It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
- George Crabbe, The Borough
May reach the dignity of crimes."
- Hannah More, Florio