Sunday, January 9, 2011

Habit Quotes.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
-- Frank A. Clark

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
-- Latin Proverb

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
-- Proverb


 

Character is long-standing habit.
-- Plutarch

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
-- Charles C. Noble

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
-- Robert Puller

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
-- Mark Twain

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
-- Nathaniel Emmons

Habit is stronger than reason.
-- George Santayana

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-- Jim Rohn


Nothing is stronger than habit.
-- Ovid

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
-- Stephen Covey

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
-- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.
-- James Allen

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