Quotes with habit

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
  • 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.
  • It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
  • One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  • Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
  • The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
  • A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
  • Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
  • If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
  • We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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  • Plutarch Character is simply habit long continued.
    ― Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • André Maurois If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
    ― André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare How use doth breed a habit in man!
    ― William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Hosea Ballou A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
    ― Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    ― Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Marcel Proust The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
    ― Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • George Lois Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
    ― George Lois
     
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  • Mark Twain A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    ― Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Habit is second nature.
    ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    ― Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Epictetus If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
    ― Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Napoleon Hill Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
    ― Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
    ― Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    Source: My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    ― Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Napoleon Hill You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
    ― Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Abigail Van Buren A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Paul J. Meyer A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
    ― Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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