#habit

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ↗

— Charles Reade

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ↗

— Patrick White

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Never permit failure to become a habit. ↗

— William Frederick Book

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

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