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Quotes about Habit


Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Ancient Proverb

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou

Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.

Agatha Christie

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Aldous Huxley

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

James Baldwin

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Dorothea Brande

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

Julie Henderson

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

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Anonymous

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Holbrook Jackson

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Ancient Proverb

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tyron Edwards

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Tyron Aristotle

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