Quotes with habit

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  • George Crabbe Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Maxwell Maltz Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Anthony Trollope He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
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  • Bill Hybels If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, What's working and what's not working?
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Billie Holiday In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William Shakespeare It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.''
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Marcus 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.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Mortimer Caplan Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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  • David Lloyd George Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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