Moral Habit Quotes

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

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.

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study the words of His latter-day prophets; choose to listen to the Father, and do the things He asks of us. Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible-and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.