Habit Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Habit is stronger than nature.
  [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Stronger

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• The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Chains, Serpent

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

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Bears, Impatience, Should

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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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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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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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• Habit is overcome by habit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Overcoming

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

  Socrates

  Excellence

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• Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

  Publilius Syrus

  Powerful, Empires

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 305, 1856.

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• A habit does not a monk make.

  Francois Rabelais

  Doe, Monk

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• Habit is stronger than nature.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Stronger

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 5, 21,

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• All habits gather by unseen degrees.

  John Dryden

  Unseen, Degrees

  "Wit for Wisdom". Book by Kevin Solway, www.theabsolute.net.

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• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

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• The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fall, Have A Great Day, Neighbor

  "The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations".

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• A man may have no bad habits and have worse

  Mark Twain

  Men, May, Bad Habits

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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• To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Despair

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• Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

  Thomas Troward

  Wish, Essentials, Clarity

  Thomas Troward (1915). “The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science”

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• Habit is second nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Slave

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