Habitual Action Quotes

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.

If you keep doing something over and over, you should get good at it.

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

Habits change into character.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

I practice a lot.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

The power of habit is very strong.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

You've got to do it in practice first.

To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

Habit is ten times nature.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.