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War is not human nature. It is a habit.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...

We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

We are mere bundles of habits.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.