Quotes of Wont - somelinesforyou

“ Habits change into character. ”

- Ovid

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

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Habit is second nature. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Make good habits and they will make you. ”

- Parks Cousins

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

- Merrill Markoe

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

- Agatha Christie

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

- Vince Lombardi

“ Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. ”

- Mortimer J. Adler

“ In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. ”

- Lydia Sigourney

“ The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. ”

- J. Paul Getty

“ Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”

- Hannah More

“ Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. ”

- Unknown

“ Good habits are the muscles of the soul. Keep new habits alive and strong by daily exercise. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. ”

- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

- Lillian Hellman

“ Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. ”

- Unknown

“ Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Richard Whately

“ Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end. ”

- Aristotle

“ Habit is stronger than nature. ”

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

“ Habit is, as it were, a second nature. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Nothing is more powerful than habit. ”

- Ovid

“ First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ”

- Charles C. Noble

“ A habit does not a monk make. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can. ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ”

- John Dryden
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