Pastoral Resources

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Habits change into character.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Character is long-standing habit.

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.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.