We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero Ferrucci
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
I was the first person who donated blood in the first mobile blood van in Shenzhen. I have formed a habit of donating blood every six months since then.
Gu Lihua's
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy Boyd
Not an audience but a habit.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Brooks Adams
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo Aikman
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Dr. Rollo May
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt Whitman
As with any habit, the person has to make a commitment that they do want to stop.
Alan Manevitz
I've worn a lot of uniforms this year. You don't want to make a habit of that.
David Ross
Smoking is an addiction, a dependency and a habit. It requires behavioral changes.
Kathy Brittingham
Habit is ten times nature.
Arthur Wellesley
There have been a number of games in which we got ourselves behind. That's a bad habit to get.
Tom Marryott
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore
Hitters get into a funk with their swing. Almost everybody gets into a bad habit along the way.
Turtle Thomas
He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.
Gay Talese
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
Terry Pratchett
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
We need to do better in batting, ... We have been losing too many wickets with the new ball. If we get out of that habit we should be okay.
Habibul Bashar
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine Of Hippo
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Rich Little
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
H. Rider Haggard
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know-I've been using it for years.
Tallulah Bankhead
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T Lombardi
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
This won't be a habit for us. It's over. It's done. All that losing ended today.
Dietric Slater
You have to convince them because they are a creature of habit ? white shirt, blue shirt, black shirt. You don't have to be dark and boring, you can be fun?. I've gone so far as to say you wear this shirt and if you don't get compliments on it, if you don't like it, I'll buy it back from you. I've yet to do it.
Dennis Versecki
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
Loudon Wainwright
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
They're really crossing their fingers, because the disposable income is so low. It's going to take a lot to trigger that emotional buying habit.
James Detorre
Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.
Abe Lemons
I'd gotten in the habit of doing different things at home instead of practicing golf.
Jeff Maggert
You have to investigate further. Is it a habit or a one-time thing? That would throw up a red flag to me.
Vinny Cerrato
Break the leg of a bad habit.
Puerto Rican Proverb
Ethanol has great potential to help the U.S. kick our oil habit, but that's 20 or 30 years away.
David Friedman
The idea is to form a habit, to get in the habit of getting out on a regular basis.
Karen Smith
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston
It's hard to find motivation after what happened. If it were the first time we've been disparaged, it would be fine, but this is becoming a habit.
Albena Denkova
We're trying to create a habit of movement.
Kelly Leonard
As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates
It's a habit now, cause I have a little brother at home, so it's a habit.
Kerah Pearman
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
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Stevenson
A habit is a shirt made of iron.
Czech Proverb
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
William Bolitho
It was a polite habit up until about 10 years ago to hand it to the opposition.
Andrea Vannucci
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Sir Thomas Browne
He hangs in all the time - it's a habit he has.
Graeme Rogerson
The UK has adopted the American habit of credit with vigor, and consequently consumers are rapidly getting in over their heads.
Steve Rhode
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Americans used to change designs every seven or eight years in the last century. Now we do it every 25 years or so, ... We've gotten out of the habit.
Henrietta Holsman
He eliminated any possibility of a bad habit. I was with him every single day, so I'm not guessing.
Scott Davenport
This was a big win for us. We've got into a bad habit recently where we fall behind by four or five goals, but today was one of the few times we were able to regroup and comeback to win.
Haswell Franklin
Part of it is that they are going to get in the habit of going to the dentist.
Linda Harkins
He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.
Steve Siegel
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun
He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.
Felipe Noguera
That's a habit. It feels better at the end just giving it your all.
Nicky Rausch
That's a spending habit that he would exhibit for the rest of his life.
Mike Freeman
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Edward Everett Hale
They're a creature of habit and routine; they like things the same everyday . I gradually have to adjust their schedule for that one hour difference .
Joe Stewart
They're just apprehensive about 'the new,' ... They're very intelligent animals. They're creatures of habit just like we are.
David Baker
People will steel out of habit. And what they're doing is grinding their knives away.
Budd Solaegui
There's an old saying that excellence isn't an act, it's a habit. This team is developing some very good habits.
Michael Mclaughlin
That's why property crimes are up. People are stealing to support their habit.
Rob Teuteberg
If you look at their last four or five games, they've had a bad habit of falling behind every game. If we can do that, then we'll be in better shape. That's what we'll have to exploit.
Guy Carbonneau
We're for people just controlling their dogs especially if they're in the habit of attacking people or other dogs.
Richard Marshall
Our competitors have built the segment, consumers have built the habit; for us the foundation has been made.
Ian Rowden
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Victor Sawdon Pritchett
It's just my habit, when things come in, I like to take care of it.
John Norton
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Paul Williams
It's how I support my Minuteman habit.
Dottie Dalton
Sister Jude was one of the older ones, she always wore her habit. Never saw her without it.
Alex Turner
The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness.
Lord Hailsham
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
It was hell. It's a very hard habit to break.
Robert Peters
We have a habit of being lackadaisical, playing up and down.
Elliot Washington
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