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Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.


Thomas à Kempis

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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
ERASMUS Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
JOSEPH KAINES A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, co...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.
MARK TWAIN Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a ...
MARK TWAIN Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a t...
MARK TWAIN Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a ...
MARK TWAIN Habit is Habit, and not to be thrown out the window by any man, but to be coaxed downstairs a step a...
MARK TWAIN Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at...
MARK TWAIN Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER How use doth breed a habit in man!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am...
BLAISE PASCAL Only a habit can subdue another habit.
OG MANDINO It takes a habit to replace a habit.
NAPOLEON HILL Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis ca...
NORMAN COUSINS You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.
MAGGLIO ORDONEZ I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking i...
ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of f...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
JOSEPH E. ROGERS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can...
NORMAN COUSINS First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired o...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First<...
STEPHEN R. COVEY There is no influence like the influence of habit.
GILBERT PARKER Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like yo...
BRENé BROWN Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
EVENUS Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
EVENUS Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
THEODOSIA GARRISON The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
SOCRATES Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
NATALIE MASSENET H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.
LUCAS REMMERSWAAL Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE Habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETT The idea is to form a habit, to get in the habit of getting out on a regular basis.
KAREN SMITH I don't think that's a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, ... Somebody's bad habi...
LOU PUCCI Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form
ANDRE MAUROIS A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's
RICHARD WHATELY When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS Habit is a form of exercise
ELBERT HUBBARD Love is a product of habit
LUCRETIUS The best way to get promoted is to work yourself out of a job.
EDDIE DE JONG She is forever buying things because it is so cheap! That's financial suicide.
EDDIE DE JONG Thanking someone is such a simple thing, but it is extremely rewarding, both to the giver and the re...
EDDIE DE JONG It's your money. Make a conscious choice on how you're going to spend it!
EDDIE DE JONG I will help people become the best that they can be.
EDDIE DE JONG In this context, does it sound like building habits is something worthwhile doing? You bet it does!
EDDIE DE JONG If you are serious about changing your life, you have to get into the habit of finishing what you st...
EDDIE DE JONG Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences.
EDDIE DE JONG The key is to realize that you have a choice on how to spend your money.
EDDIE DE JONG You can decide to ignore the naysayers, put your head down and work on becoming the best you can.
EDDIE DE JONG Don't buy on credit. This habit, more than any other, will eventually guarantee your financial indep...
EDDIE DE JONG Watching TV together does not count as dedicated family time!
EDDIE DE JONG To get more money to spend on yourself - don't buy on credit!
EDDIE DE JONG Random acts of kindness don't have to be big or even cost money. It will however make you a better p...
EDDIE DE JONG You can change your life and make it what you want it to be, but only if you take consistent action.
EDDIE DE JONG You need to decide what your life is going to look like!
EDDIE DE JONG You will be able to change your life to what you want it to be only by taking responsibility for you...
EDDIE DE JONG Habit is second nature.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Habit is a shackle for the free.
AMBROSE BIERCE Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
JULIE HENDERSON Old habits are strong and jealous.
DOROTHEA BRANDE The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
LILLIAN HELLMAN It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
MERRILL MARKOE In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
ISAAC WILLIAMS How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiu...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The fox changes his skin but not his habits. [Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap ...
CHARLES READE Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE Habits form character and character is destiny.
JOSEPH KAINES A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ou...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
GEORGE CRABBE Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised befo...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...
ARISTOTLE First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
CHARLES C. NOBLE

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THOMAS A KEMPIS It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spo...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
THOMAS A KEMPIS What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to ...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
THOMAS A KEMPIS The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
THOMAS A. KEMPIS No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth t...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Be not angry that you c...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at th...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he unders...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be rea...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, beca...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of the Holy Cross When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is g...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; somet...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Whoever loves much, does ...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropis...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judg...
THOMAS &AGRAVE; KEMPIS Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
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