Quotes with habits

  • One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
  • Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
  • A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
  • People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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  • Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Ovid Habits change into character.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Aristotle It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Richard Whately A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles J. Givens Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Paxton Hood Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
    Paxton Hood
     
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  • Dean William R. Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Agatha Christie Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bret Harte Don't be too quick
    To break bad habits: better stick,
    Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Aristotle Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph W. Sockman Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
    Ralph W. Sockman
     
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  • Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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