Habit Quotes - Page 8

• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Winning, Expectations

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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• Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

  John Muir

  Coffee, Mouths, Cows

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.97, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Demon, Individual

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• Pursuits become habits.
  [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

  Ovid

  Pursuit

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• Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mother, Good Mother

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Positive Thinking, Mma, Get Better

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.

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• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Snacks, Peculiar

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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.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Mind, Important, Gains

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• If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Giving

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Father, Character

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• Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspirational, Success, Singleness Of Purpose

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  Rumi

  Strength, Lying, Pride

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• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

  Steven Biko

  Perseverance, Lying, Dedication

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  Life, Peace, Achievement

  American Magazine, Vol. 103, (p. 183), 1927.

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• Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Mind, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Peace, Sex, Practice

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• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

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• As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Personality, Quality, Virtue

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• 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 North Whitehead

  Change, Practice, Dumb

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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