| 50 Habit Quotes
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“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal Quotes |
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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
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“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
Charles C. Noble Quotes |
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“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
Robert Puller Quotes |
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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.”
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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
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“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
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“A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Beggar's Bush (act II, sc. 3, l. 210)
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“Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 25)
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“Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: The Borough (letter III)
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“A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes Source: Diluculum
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“We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our
characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes Source: Diluculum
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“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Rasselas (ch. XII)
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“Habits form character and character is destiny.”
Joseph Kaines Quotes Source: Our Daily Faults and Failings, an address
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“Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]”
Joseph Kaines Quotes Source: Our Daily Faults and Failings, an address
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“Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“Sow an action, reap a habit.”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (II, 345)
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“Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Heroides (XV, 83)
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“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (bk. XV, l. 155), (Dryden's translation)
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“Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 345)
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“Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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