habit quotes

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (William Maugham) [habit]
• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois) [more/habit/time/form]
• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. (Andre Maurois) [habit/habit/character/character]
• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. (John Locke) [habit]
• I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [habit]
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ( Aristotle) [habit]
• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ( Aristotle) [action/habit]
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ( Aristotle) [result/habit/acts/acts]
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. (Francis Bacon) [life/habit/willpower/agreeable]
• When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. (James Baldwin) [habit]
• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. (Albert Camus) [habit/habit/thinking/death]
• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. (Marcus Cicero) [power/habit/wounds/pain]
• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. (Alistair Cooke) [habit/men]
• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. (Salvador Dali) [habit]
• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. (Denis Diderot) [form/people/habit/matter]
• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. (Albert Einstein) [habit/find/foundations/find]
• Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [action/habit/habit/character]
• The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [habit/action]
• This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [habit/action]
• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. (Benjamin Franklin) [habit/time]
• Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. (Mahatma Gandhi) [service/habit/service/desire]
• When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. (Georg Hegel) [night/strike/habit/feeling]
• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. (Napoleon Hill) [right/habit/more/service]
• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. (Napoleon Hill) [procrastination/habit/day/day]
• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. (Napoleon Hill) [habit]
• Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. (Kin Hubbard) [habit]
• 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. (William James) [habit/society/fortune]
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. (William James) [habit/take/exception/habit]
• The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. (Samuel Johnson) [habit/more]
• The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson) [habit]
• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. (Helen Keller) [form/habit/equilibrium/light]

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