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Character is simply habit long continued.


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Character is simply habit long continued.
PLATO Character is long-standing habit.
PLUTARCH While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.
FRANK SONNENBERG Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a hab...
ELIHU ROOT 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) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap ...
CHARLES READE Sow an idea, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a cha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder...
PLUTARCH If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you crea...
ANDRE MAUROIS The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white ...
HOSEA BALLOU Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is t...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence ...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a ch...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a ch...
CHARLES READE Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persis...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you r...
ANON. Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you...
SAMUEL SMILES To fail is not a character flaw, just simply knowledge gained.
SUPER GIRL Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.
DAVID RYAN Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do
ALBERT GRAY Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
ALBERT GRAY 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 Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living
until the escape becomes the habit.
DAVID RYAN Money doesn't define people but character does. People with character will see pass the money. The p...
TROY GATHERS Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impress...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit....
SHIV KHERA The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
SHARON HORGAN The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable bo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our char...
HENRY HANCOCK We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take i...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.
MATT DILLON When I read the script, I simply loved my character.
JOBETH WILLIAMS Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial...
EDGAR MITCHELL A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white ...
HOSEA BALLOU A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure whit...
HOSEA BALLOU Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being c...
NEAL STEPHENSON The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
QUENTIN CRISP The habit of intensity is not simply being passionate about your goals, but it connotes some form of...
SUNDAY ADELAJA How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
EDWARD COKE Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, a...
MADELINE MILLER Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to ...
LORD MORAN We showed character and we showed fight. We got down, and we still continued to fight and lost by ei...
EARL CALLOWAY What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dis...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to coun...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
ROBERT MOSES He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy
ROBERT MOSES Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
JOSEPH KAINES Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
THOMAS à KEMPIS when we work together, we achieve more. Character is not a concept that is simply spoken about, but ...
JOSE A. AVILES A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation
MARK TWAIN A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.
GRANT BOWLER Fictional character;Simply means to portray an attitude alien to yours,just to deceive the public.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Joy is love rejoicing; peace is love resting; longsuffering is love enduring; gentleness is love's s...
UNKNOWN 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 A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
HENRY WILLIAMSON Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am...
BLAISE PASCAL First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired o...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER As long as there's continued jitters in Nasdaq, we'll have to wait to see what happens.
KATHY MATSUI Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
EMILY GIFFIN People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happines...
CRISS JAMI The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And...
You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.
MAGGLIO ORDONEZ He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their cour...
HUGH HOWEY The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
THEODOSIA GARRISON As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emer...
HENRY VAN DYKE The document simply reiterates long-standing Catholic teaching and practice.
GEORGE WEIGEL The document simply reiterates long-standing Catholic teaching and practice,
GEORGE WEIGEL There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pityi...
DAVID SELTZER The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And...
BUDDHA All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the bes...
JOYCE MAYNARD Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a sm...
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Habit is second nature.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole tr...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER There's no such thing as "for sure". That's the only sure thing I do know.
PAUL BETTANY Submission to one wrong brings on another
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