| "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." »Mark Twain |
| "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." »Herbert Kaufman |
| "Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy." »Napolean Hill |
| "Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence." »Elihu Burritt |
| "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." »Anne Frank |
| "Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." »T. S. Eliot |
| "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions." »Albert Einstein |
| "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill |
| "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 |
| "Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny." »George Dana Boardman |
| "We say the name of God, but that is only habit." »Nikita Khrushchev |
| "Nothing is stronger than habit." »Ovid |
| "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." »Jim Ryun |
| "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." »Jules Renard |
| "How use doth breed a habit in a man." »William Shakespeare |
| "Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." »Nathaniel Emmons |
| "Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing." »Vince Lombardi |
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." »Aristotle |
| "Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth." »George Crabbe |
| "It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give." »Walt Whitman |
| "As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." »Hippocrates |
| "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable." »Francis Bacon |
| "Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do." »Shaquille ONeal |
| "Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy." »Henri de Lubac |
| "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." »Peter Ustinov |
| "It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead." »Robert G. Ingersoll |
| "Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive." »Wallace Irwin |
| "Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." »Mark Twain |
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