Actions quotes1/29/2023 ![]() "A large part of virtue consists in good habits." "The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." William Somerset Maugham As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck." Grenville Kleiser "Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness ? achievement." In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. "We're worn into grooves by Time?by our habits. "Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis." "We are what we think as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn." The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it?how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. "The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel." Tyron Edwards "Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. "It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man?s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."Īs brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas." John Dryden "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."ĥ. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way." Anonymous ![]() ![]() "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." Anonymous "A man?s fortune has its form given to it by his habits." Anonymous "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." Henry Adams "Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny." Tryon Edwards "As a twig is bent the tree inclines." Virgil "Good habits result from resisting temptation." Indian Proverb And we need to throw the old ones away." Kenich Ohmae Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." Charles Dickens "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." Vince Lombardi Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." Juliene Berk "Habits? the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction? You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. ![]() "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." Benjamin Franklin Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi
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