Quotations
Quotes:
Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. (Attributed)
View quotes by Charles Reade
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.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
View quotes by Edith Wharton
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
View quotes by Gerard Didier Erasmus
I've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
View quotes by Lisa Scott Lee
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. (The Habit of Loving)
View quotes by Doris Lessing
"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
View quotes by Gay Talese
The country habit has me by the heart,
For he's bewitched for ever who has seen,
Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring
Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
View quotes by Victoria (Vita) Sackville-West
I never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
View quotes by Ron Atkinson
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them (L'habit vert)
View quotes by Marquis De Flers
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
View quotes by Francis Bacon
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
View quotes by Aristotle
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
View quotes by Walter Bagehot
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham
Nothing is stronger than habit.
View quotes by Ovid
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
View quotes by Jules Renard
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
View quotes by Peter Ustinov
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
View quotes by Dean Acheson
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
View quotes by Hosea Ballou
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
View quotes by Warren Buffett
Proverbs:
Old Habits Die Hard
Motivation Is What Gets You Started Habit Is What Keeps You Going
Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Words Watch Your Words, They Become Actions, Watch Your Actions, They Become Habits, Watch Your Habits, They Become Characer Watch Your Character, It Becomes Your Destiny
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