Habit Quotes - Page 6

• It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Improvement

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sin, Bad Habits, Turns

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• The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Destiny, Marijuana

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Habit is the nursery of errors.

  Victor Hugo

  Learning, Errors, Nursery

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• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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• We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Disguise

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• Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowing, Looks, World

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.201, Applewood Books

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  To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Worry, Mind

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Character is long-standing habit.

  Plutarch

  Art, Philosophy, Character

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

  Marva Collins

  Motivational Sports, Business, Excellence

  Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.114, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

  Henry Fielding

  Strong, Long, Mind

  Henry Fielding (2012). “Joseph Andrews”, p.186, tredition

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• Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Doe, Cases

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

  Darren Johnson

  Helping, Belief, Behavior

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• The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

  Doug Henning

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Work

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• Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiring, Worry, Inspire

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Strong, Mind, May

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• Habits change into character.

  Ovid

  Change, Character, Ancient

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• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Substance, Tissues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Excellence, Strive

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Steps, Window

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