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| I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. | | John Dryden | |
| Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! | | John Dryden | |
| Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. | | Aristotle | |
| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. | | Mark Twain | |
| Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... | | Stephen R. Covey | |
| Quality is not an act, it is a habit. | | Aristotle | |
| The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. | | Socrates | |
| Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. | | Aristotle | |
| We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
| Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit | | Epictetus | |
| Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it | | Rudyard Kipling | |
