Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character..
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Character is long-standing habit.
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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We call a child's mind small simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort
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Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but
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Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus.. In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have
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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why
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Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day after. However, at last he improved and really died Jan 31 1972.
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Before a person makes a decision or gets involved he should form the habit of asking himself a simple but important question: How will this affect my life, and others? Alfred A
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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