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Quotations about habits

Lao TzuWatch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

 - Laozi / Lao-Tzu

Tags:   actions  destiny  habits  thought  words  

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. 'Tis better that a man's own works than another man's words should praise him.

 - Roger L'Estrange

Tags:   appearance  character  habits  judgment  

Oliver Wendell HolmesHabits are the crutches of old age: by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic...when every act of self determination costs an effort and a pang.

 - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tags:   age  aging  effort  habits  

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul - for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.

 - Marcus Antonius

Tags:   character  habits  thoughts