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Friday, 10 October 2008
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"Life is a state of mind." (Warden, Jack - Life and Living)

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Browse Quotations about Habit

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Break a bad habit -- drop it
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Habit is a form of exercise
Habit is a great deadener.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Habit is second nature.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Habit is ten times nature.
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
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.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Habits change into character.
-- Ovid | Habit
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.
How use doth breed a habit in man!
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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.
Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Make good habits and they will make you.
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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.
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Successful people are simply those with success habits.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.