Habit Quotes
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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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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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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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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a 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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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but 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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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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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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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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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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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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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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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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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a 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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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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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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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
