Quotes with habit-forming

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  • Gail Sheehy The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anthony Burgess The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Og Mandino The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Buddha 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
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Don Marquis There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bernard Mandeville This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bryan Adams Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • E. M. Cioran To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Jean Cocteau True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Alcee Hastings Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Will Durant We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Albert Camus We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Norman Cousins We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Mack R. Douglas When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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