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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -- Jim Ryun
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. -- Saint Augustine
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. -- Aristotle
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. -- Hippocrates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. -- Ralph Marston
Habit is second nature. -- Michel de Montaigne
Habit: Often mistaken for love. -- Marlene Dietrich
Habit is stronger than nature. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Habit is stronger than desire. -- Mike Murdock
Habit is stronger than reason. -- George Santayana
Habit is ten times nature. -- Duke of Wellington
Habit is overcome by habit. -- Thomas a Kempis
Habit is a great deadener. -- Samuel Beckett
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. -- William Wordsworth
Habit had made the custom. -- Ovid
Habit is a second nature. -- Michel de Montaigne
Habit was stronger than emotion. -- Tim Wynne-Jones
Habit: The great economizer of energy. -- Elbert Hubbard
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Habit is everything, even in love. -- Luc de Clapiers
Habit is a form of exercise. -- Elbert Hubbard
Habit is necessary to give power. -- William Hazlitt
Habit is the nursery of errors. -- Victor Hugo
Habit: A shackle for the free. -- Ambrose Bierce
Habit has a kind of poetry. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. -- Octavia Butler
Habit is the daily battleground of character -- Dan Coats
Habit is the great flywheel of society. -- William James
Habit is the strongest thing in life. -- Jack Black
Habit is the most imperious of all masters. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change -- Charles Caleb Colton
Habit is the deepest law of human nature -- Thomas Carlyle
Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] -- Thomas a Kempis
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. -- Blaise Pascal
Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience. -- Helen McCloy
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -- Aldous Huxley
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature. -- William James
Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. -- William James
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire. -- Mason Cooley
Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch. -- Nir Eyal
Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. -- Alexander Pushkin
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. -- Henri de Lubac
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. -- Samuel Beckett
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment. -- Samuel Beckett
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. -- Nathanael Emmons
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. -- Jane Hirshfield
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. -- Horace Mann
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. -- Hal Boyle
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. -- George Santayana
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. -- Jose Marti
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean... -- Brian Jacques
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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth. -- George Crabbe
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. -- Horace Mann
We become what we repeatedly do. -- Stephen Covey
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. -- Brian Tracy
Excellence is not an act, but a habit. -- Marva Collins
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. -- Vince Lombardi Jr.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -- Herbert Kaufman
I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner. -- Serena Williams
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. -- Lillian Hellman
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you -- Elbert Hubbard
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. -- John Dryden
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit. -- Socrates
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. -- Benjamin Franklin
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. -- Peter Ustinov
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. -- Maxwell Maltz
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. -- Brian Tracy
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. -- Thomas Paine
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. -- Mark Twain
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. -- Wayne Dyer
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. -- Napoleon Hill
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. -- Dale Carnegie
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. -- Thomas Woods
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. -- Martha Beck
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world. -- Felix Dennis
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. -- Wynton Marsalis
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Sarah Vowell
Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. -- Richard Stallman
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. -- Gary Ryan Blair
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. -- Steven Pressfield
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living. -- Nhat Hanh
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. -- Ted Danson
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you. -- Brett Hoebel
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. -- Peng Liyuan
Winning is a habit. -- Leo Durocher
affection is a habit. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Everybody's got a habit. -- Lillian Hellman
Character is long-standing habit. -- Plutarch
Character is inured habit. -- Plutarch
Cultivate the habit of laughter. -- Og Mandino
Excellence has become a habit. -- Tim Cook
Twitter's probably my bad habit. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Talking's just a nervous habit. -- Martha Grimes
Books are a habit-forming drug. -- Agatha Christie
Nothing is stronger than habit. -- Ovid
Unpunctuality is a vile habit. -- Winston Churchill
Happiness never becomes a habit. -- Marilyn Monroe
Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit. -- Chip Conley
Divorce transforms habit into drama. -- Al Alvarez

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