HABIT QUOTES III

quotations about habit

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time--and thereby renew our sense of life itself.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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A faithful horse had done service for many years in a bark mill. At length he became old and blind and stiff. Kindness then prompted that he be turned out to pasture the remainder of his days. But, to the astonishment of the owner, every day, when it was time to work, the horse would start on a tramp, going round in a circle, just as he had been accustomed to do for so many years. Passers-by would stop and look at the old horse as he went around, just as if he was working as in days gone by. The force of habit had fixed itself upon him.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

"Habits", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

SAMUEL SMILES

Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

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Youth everywhere is forming habits either good or bad, and the future is largely determined by the habits acquired in early life. The idle, careless youth becomes the profligate, worthless man. The careful, temperate, industrious youth becomes the strong, reliable and trusty man. As a rule, men do not become truly great when bound down by evil habits.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

"Habits", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


Habit is a past (as result), but this past makes possible a future.

CATHERINE MALABOU

preface, Of Habit


The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Plague

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Man is a bundle of habits in action, speech and thought.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Habit", Human Life from Many Angles


Ill habits gather by unseen degrees --
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

JOHN DRYDEN

Ovid

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We talk of acquiring a habit; we should rather say being acquired by it.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable.

NICOLE KRAUSS

Man Walks Into a Room


When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt

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The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

LUCAS REMMERSWAAL

The A-Z of 13 Habits


If you are unfortunate enough to have acquired bad habits, break them at once before they gain a greater hold on you. You may think them absolutely under your control, but thousands have made the same assumption and have found themselves woefully mistaken. You may not be able to overcome and subdue these habits in your own strength, but there is a power stronger than any earthly power that can help you to conquer. God's almightiness has in many cases broken these. Cast yourself upon Him. Trust Him to break these bonds and He will do it.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

"Habits", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Principles of Psychology

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H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.

LUCAS REMMERSWAAL

The A-Z of 13 Habits


Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! the root of error.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims

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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

EPICTETUS

Discourses

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Most men are prisoners at best,
Who some strong habit every drag about
Like chain and ball.

HENRY ABBEY

"The Galley Slave"

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