Quotes: habit
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How use doth breed a habit in man!
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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.
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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.
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Plutarch
Greek biographer and essayist
46-120 AD
Character is simply habit long continued.
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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Hosea Ballou
American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
1771-1852
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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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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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
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Habit is second nature.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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Thomas Paine
English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor
1737-1809
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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