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 | "A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by
habit." | |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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| "A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an
ink-drop soileth the pure white page." | |
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Hosea Ballou
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| "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be
first." | |
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The Bible
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| "Don"t think you"re on the right road just because it?s a well-beaten
path." | |
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Unknown
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| "Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the
worst man good." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under
automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger
experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in
debating actions which should be taken for granted." | |
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Ralph W. Sockman, D.D.
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| "Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily
necessities." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." | |
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Nathaniel Emmons
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| "Habit with him was all the test of truth, ?It must be right: I?ve
done it from my youth.?" | |
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George Crabbe
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| "HABIT, n. A shackle for the free." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we
have lost our way." | |
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Rollo May
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| "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." | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you
going." | |
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Jim Ryan
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| "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net
income." | |
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Errol Flynn
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| "Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Nothing so needs reforming as other people?s habits." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of
crimes." | |
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Hannah More
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| "The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time
we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament,
until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and
act." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too
strong to be broken." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere
tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere
repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a
certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always
involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The
indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school
itself, but to the pressure of his father"s will; when that stimulus is
absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur." | |
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Edward O. Sisson
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| "The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so
much easier to give up than bad ones." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "We"re worn into grooves by Time?by our habits. In the end, these
grooves are going to show whether we"ve been second rate or champions,
each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our
habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these
are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace,
happiness ? achievement." | |
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Frank B. Gilberth
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| "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the
liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed
to free themselves from their own individual bondage." | |
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Bruce Barton
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| "Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for
the good of that man at that time." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in
acquiring as few habits as possible." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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