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Habit Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction…
- To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with…
- From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
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