Habits Quotations
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| Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. | |||
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine | |||
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| Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. | |||
| - Warren Buffet | |||
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| A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. | |||
| - Frank A. Clark | |||
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| Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. | |||
| - Confucius | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. | |||
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
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| Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. | |||
| - William James | |||
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| The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. | |||
| - Horace Mann | |||
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| The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. | |||
| - Marcel Proust | |||
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| Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. | |||
| - Spanish Proverb | |||
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| Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. | |||
| - Yiddish Proverb | |||
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| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
| 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 | |||
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| The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. | |||
| - Miguel de Unamuno | |||
| To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. | |||
| - Miguel de Unamuno | |||