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Habit Quotes by Epictetus
- Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
- Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their…
- Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they…
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At…
- What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to…
- To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in…
- Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
More Habit Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — 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… — 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… — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon