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“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
Aristotle
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
Albert Einstein
“Habit is the 6th sense that overrules the other 5”
Arab Proverb
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”
Og Mandino
“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit”
Epictetus
“It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way”
Rollo May
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
William James
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
Colin Powell
“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.”
John Jay Chapman