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“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.”
David Ryan
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
Augustine of Hippo
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.”
Aristotle
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them”
Confucius
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...”
Stephen R. Covey
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
Buddha
“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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
Napoleon Hill
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.”
Oscar Wilde
