Habit Quotes
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
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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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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
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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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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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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a 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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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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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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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
