"Habit is overcome by habit." — Thomas a Kempis
"Habit is overcome by habit."
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Thomas a Kempis
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232 Quotes by Thomas a Kempis
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this…
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In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and…
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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly…
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou…
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever…
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Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for…
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Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
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Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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