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
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