Quotes About Habit

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Excellence has become a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

For knowledge you must have a desire and habit of learning. Along with knowledge, learning makes one humble.

You can't call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Get in the habit of seeing that every worry, every concern, every possible situation, provides fuel for positive action. Take this action!

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Anchors. You had to be your own anchor. By now there was no escaping this knowledge. Still she had been trained to look for them and despite all that had happened, she had not got over the habit.

but the habits of frugality ingrained during years of perpetual worry about money, and daily, hourly, weighing of cost and benefit, meant she could never take an auto, not on her birthday, not ever.

Peu de gens savent que fumer des cigarettes tue. En même temps, je ne vois pas ce qu'on peut en faire d'autre...On ne va pas le manger ou se les glisser dans le rectum, tout de même

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

Eating with awareness is the most important and powerful tool to transform your relationship to food and the body. Once you begin to practice it, it becomes a lifelong habit. There is no goal or ideal to strive for. All there is to do is eat, observe, and accept. No matter what kind of food you eat or nutritional system you follow, eating with awareness is

It's inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it

I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.