Habit
The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.
The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.
Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.
Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.
To inhabit.
To dress; to clothe; to array.
To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.
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Habit Quotations
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Maya Angelou
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
Habit Translations
habit in Afrikaans is gebruik, gewoonte
habit in Dutch is aanwensel, hebbelijkheid
habit in Finnish is tapa
habit in French is habitude, configuration
habit in German is Angewohnheit {f}, Beschaffenheit
habit in Latin is adsuetudo
habit in Norwegian is drakt, vane
habit in Swedish is sedvana, sed, vana
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