Habit

(265 votes)   It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(252 votes)   Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(232 votes)   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
1902-, American Educator, Philosopher

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(182 votes)   Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(166 votes)   Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

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(135 votes)   If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator

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(134 votes)   To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel De Unamuno
1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer

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(109 votes)   The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(99 votes)   The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(98 votes)   Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(98 votes)   Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Evenus
Ancient Greek Poet

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(97 votes)   Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Nathaniel Emmons

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(94 votes)   The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(88 votes)   To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(84 votes)   Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide.

Tom Rusk

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