Quotes About Habit

Excellence is not an act, but habit.

Aristotle insists that habituation, not teaching, is the route to moral virtue (II. 1). We must practise doing good actions, not just read about virtue.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

What then is a moral virtue, the result of such a process duly directed? It is no mere mood of feeling, no mere liability to emotion, no mere natural aptitude or endowment, it is a permanent state of the agent's self, or, as we might in modern phrase put it, of his will, it consists in a steady self-imposed obedience to a rule of action in certain situations which frequently recur in human life.

Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Change in an art is not like change in law; for law has no strength with respect to obedience apart from habit, and this is not created except over a period of time. Hence the easy alteration of existing laws in favor of new and different ones weakens the power of law itself.

Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

Nh?ng thói quen t?t ta hình thành khi còn tr? không t?o nên khác bi?t nh? nào, Ä'úng hÆ¡n, chúng t?o ra t?t c? khác bi?t

As for the plea, that a man did not know that habits are produced from separate acts of working, we reply, such ignorance is a mark of excessive stupidity.

Virtue, then, is twofold, intellectual and moral. Both the coming-into-[1103a] being and increase of intellectual virtue result mostly from teaching—hence it requires experience and time—whereas moral virtue is the result of habit, and so it is that moral virtue got its name [?thik?] by a slight alteration of the term habit [ethos].

Neither by nature, therefore, nor contrary to nature are the virtues present; they are instead present in us who are of such a nature as to receive them, and who are completed1 through habit.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

You should practice these until they are your second nature.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.

No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking. She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried," she said, "was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all.

eÄŸer öpecek bir ÅŸeyiniz yoksa, sigara içmeniz kaç?n?lmazd?r.

I did have to resist the urge to open his bedroom door and check that he was all right. Old habits of motherhood die hard.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Une habitude c'est presque une compagnie, dans la mesure où une compagnie n'est bien souvent qu'une habitude.

Não é mais amor: sou apenas um hábito.