Rather than being quick to judge, be quick to forgive.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

The habit of telling myself off subtly shapes a nature of sorrow. Instead, let me talk to myself gently, with patience, as one would do to a child.