Habits Quotes
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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
Aristotle
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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Napoleon Hill
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.
Fisher Ames
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.
Hal Urban
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Establish good breathing habits through exercises away from the horn.
Arnold Jacobs
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There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.
John D. Voelker
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By exercising control over a few healthy habits, people can live longer, healthier lives and slow the process of aging.
Albert Bandura
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
Plato
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I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that’s why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.
Anne Jackson
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
Mahatma Gandhi
