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. – Aristotle
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! – Edmund Husserl
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. – Delia Smith
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. – David Lloyd George
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. – David Mamet
Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. – Ernest Dimnet
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. – Napoleon Hill
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver