Habit Quotes
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Happiness never becomes a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
