A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
James Tenney

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
Sallust

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
Ovid

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
Gene Tunney

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James