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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.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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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.
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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Habit is ten times nature.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
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