Quotes of Usage - somelinesforyou

“ Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ”

- Mark Twain

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ How use doth breed a habit in a man! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ”

- V. S. Pritchett

“ Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. ”

- Ellen Goodman

“ A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. ”

- Richard Whately

“ Quality is not an act. It is a habit. ”

- Aristotle

“ A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Habit is a shackle for the free. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Habit is second nature. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Habits change into character. ”

- Ovid

“ Make good habits and they will make you. ”

- Parks Cousins

“ Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually. ”

- Unknown

“ Practice in time becomes second nature. ”

- Unknown

“ Successful people are simply those with success habits. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ”

- Periander

“ Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ The habit does not make the monk. ”

- John Dryden

“ Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always. ”

- Charles Atlas

“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”

- Merrill Markoe

“ Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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