Habit Quotes

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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… — Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave… — Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but… — Aristotle
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… — David Attenborough
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You… — Chinua Achebe
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No… — Teresa of Avila
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac

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