Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Craig Kilborn

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
Susan Sarandon

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo Aikman

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
William Kingdon Clifford

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Townsend Harris

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maria Mitchell

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson