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Habit |
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Quotations
 | The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 16 likes |
 | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 4 likes |
 | Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 4 likes |
 | An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Doing the same thing for too long, in the same place, at the same time, makes you old. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 3 likes |
 | Custom without Reason, is but an ancient Error. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
 | We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. — David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish philosopher 2 likes |
| Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 2 likes |
 | Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
 | In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
| Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
 | Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 2 likes |
 | Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | It has become a habit to declare our rights in order to neglect our duties. |
 | The methods are the habits of the spirit and the benefits of the memory. |
 | Habit is the deepest law of human nature. |
| Vices are often habits rather than passions. |
 | Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: routine. |
 | Vice is man’s nature: virtue is a habit –or a mask. |
| Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly. |
 | Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. |
 | It takes a habit to replace a habit. |
Latin Quotes
 | Nothing is stronger than habit. Nil adsuetudine maius. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 38 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I’ll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | Habit is second nature. Έξις δευτέρα φύσις. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
| That which has become habitual becomes as it were natural. Το ειθισμένον ώσπερ πεφυκός ήδη γίγνεται. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
Proverbs
 | Old habits die hard. 4 likes |
