Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
—Mark Twain
Showing posts with label habit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label habit. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Post #3150
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Sunday, May 09, 2021
Post #3071
Keep out of ruts; a rut is something which if traveled in too much, becomes a ditch.
—Arthur Guiterman
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Post #2743
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
—Charles Caleb Colton
—Charles Caleb Colton
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Thursday, February 01, 2018
Post #2504
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
—Hosea Ballou
Friday, April 08, 2016
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Post #1623
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
—Horace Mann
—Horace Mann
Monday, March 24, 2014
Post #1506
In early childhood, you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children; teach them the right habits then, and their future life is safe.
—Robert Rantoul
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Post #986
Make it a point to 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
—Mark Twain
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Post #922
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010
Post #182
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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