“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

“Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”

“The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.”

“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!”

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

“I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.” 

“Be careful how you talk about any habit you are trying to break. Don’t go out with friends and talk about how you are trying to break such-and-such bad habit and it is so hard. The more you say it is hard, the harder it will be. Actually, you would be better off not to talk about it much at all. Keep your goal between you and God, and possibly one or two other trusted friends or family members whom you want to pray for you and encourage you. When you are weary of doing battle with your wrong desires, think of how wonderful it will be when the bad habit is a thing of the past and a new habit has taken its place. Focusing on developing the good habit you want to establish will automatically help you enjoy freedom from the bad habit.” 

“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.” 

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.” 

“She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.” 

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.”

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.” 

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” 

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.” 

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.