#habit

We become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate acts, and brave by performing brave acts.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Neither by nature nor contrary to nature do virtues arise in us; rather, we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.

Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar on the neural paths.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

A tendency to act only becomes ingrained when the act is repeated in physical reality.

Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can.

Habit simplifies the movements required to achieve a given result, makes them more accurate and diminishes fatigue.

Make meditation a daily appointment with your highest Self.

Excellence is a habit nurtured through daily discipline and relentless refinement.