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Habit Quotes by Mark Twain
- Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot…
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
- You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- A man may have no bad habits and have worse
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It…
- Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,…
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
- You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
- The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its…
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time
- Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of…
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