How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
Ovid Ars Amatoria
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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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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
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Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: habits choices

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of
Dag Hammarskjold Markings
Categories: habits character integrity

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: character habits patterns

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-control habits impulses

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Categories: hygiene cleanliness purity habits

Long customs are not easily broken: He that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do for others what we are seldom able to do for ourselves?
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: habits change self-improvement relationships

Simply, health is an ongoing process, often painful, of an organism becoming the most--the best--it can be. And disease is anything, sometimes painful, often painless, that interferes with the process of health.
M. Scott Peck A World Waiting to be Born: Civility Rediscovered
Categories: wellness bad habits growth self-improvement

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb
Categories: habits choices temptation proverbs

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: actions habits character personal responsibility

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernet Dimner The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: bad habits mistakes errors downfall failure

Don't water your weeds.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: growth priorities change bad habits self-improvement

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement self-control self-determination will habits

Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Frances E. Willard The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions habits character success excellence

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: patience habits annoyance anger change

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Attributed to Edward Wallis Hoch The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: gossip character integrity speech habits

We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly Power Quotes
Categories: discipline growth self-improvement procrastination bad habits

Anxiety, fear that something bad may happen, is at the core of many of our self-defeating responses.
Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. Raising Your Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide
Categories: fear anxiety emotions bad habits failure

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: temptation rationalize rationalizing rationalization excuses habits

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: patterns habits learning growth change vision rut

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: self-control self-knowledge courage desires victory habits

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits: they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: thought words speech actions character habits

Our ways of thinking make our happiness or unhappiness, our success or nonsuccess. We can, by effort, change our ways of thinking.
H. Emilie Cady Lessons in Truth
Categories: optimism thoughts habits beliefs success happiness achievement

One of these days is none of these days.
H.G. Bohn Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: procrastination time future present character habits planning

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum from the essay "Pay Attention" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: intentions habits attitude mood anger grumpiness soul self-nurture

What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: mistakes habits learning education wisdom knowledge growth change

Celebrate being alive every day. Live your highest aspirations; learn what you always wanted to learn. Don't wait until you get hit by a truck or acquire a terminal illness to change the things that prevent you from living your life to the full. Whatever your habits, whatever your age, you can change...you can learn.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: change growth self-improvement breaking habits joy happiness happy fulfillment meaning

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: worry stress anxiety greed want poverty discovery soul happiness joy change self-improvement habits

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: change growth criticism learning wisdom bad habits imperfections sins character self-improvement self-awareness self-knowledge

Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage--choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essential irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
Rene Dubos Celebration of Life
Categories: choice responsiblity direction meaning purpose fulfillment change destiny evolve personality habits self-improvement growth

...the best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.
In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be...the key to faster learning--is to use appropriate effort...
Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: results success effort learning success habits growth unlearning