Quotes and Sayings About Habit
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
-- A.C. Grayling -
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
-- Abigail Adams -
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
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Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
-- Adrian GrenierSource : FaceBook post by Adrian Grenier from Apr 10, 2012
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Your character is the harvest of your habits.
-- Adrian Rogers -
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
-- Alan Paton -
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
-- Albert Camus -
Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
-- Alfred de Vigny -
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
-- Alistair Cooke -
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.
-- Allan HoustonSource : "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
-- Alphonsus LiguoriSource : St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books
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There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.
-- Alton BrownSource : Alton Brown (2012). “I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking”, p.21, Abrams
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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.
-- Andre Maurois -
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Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.
-- Angie SageSource : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.430, A&C Black
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
-- Ann Voskamp -
When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
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Vices are often habits rather than passions.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
-- Ariel Gore -
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
-- Aristotle -
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
-- Aristotle -
95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
-- Aristotle