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Habit Quotes by Jane Austen
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
- It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every…
- You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
- The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
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