I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
I got a bad habit of creating.
Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
Most athletes, we're the good ol' boys, part of the good-ol'-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.
My wife had a bad habit of biting her nails, but I cured her. I hid her teeth.
If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
Twitter's probably my bad habit.
I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
