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Quotes tagged ‘Habit’
if you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to have what you’ve always had.
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
I do the same thing every day. I eat three meals, sleep six hours and read dusty old books the rest of the time. My life is about as devoid of anything funny as the great desert is of grass.
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as "grace under pressure" — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of ha…
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
The one mantra if you want to get good at something is not: Learn. Or read. Or study. Or dream. It’s do. Every day.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.
What we practice becomes habit.