Archive for Habit Quotes
July 7, 2010 at 1:27 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Habit Quotes, Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill’s Law of Success is a monument of a publication and at the time was expensive (Law of Success was originally published in 1928 as a set of 8 books with two lessons in each book).
With the onset of the Great Depression Napoleon Hill decided on editing down the Law Of Success and making it more accessible to people. This edited and rewritten version was published in 1930 and titled: The Magic Ladder To Success.
The book is hard to track down so I’ve ordered a reprint copy (available from highroads media ).
Interesting though is a quote from the book that states:
“Leaders are not born, they are molded by a remarkably similar, simple, and dynamic set of habits.”
I will let you know what my thoughts are about the book when I read it.
April 19, 2007 at 5:01 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Habit Quotes
“Success is a habit which can be acquired by the exercise of a moderate amount of intelligence, a great deal of hard work, and an unswerving sincerity of purpose.” - Major General Herbert Leonard Grills
March 7, 2007 at 11:45 am · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Habit Quotes, Napoleon Hill
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.” - Napoleon Hill.
Napoleon Hill. He knew the importance of Habit.
November 23, 2006 at 1:40 am · Filed under Habit Quotes
“I Tell You, Friend, ’tis Practice Long Pursued, And This At Last Becomes A Man’s Own Nature” - Evenus from Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics.
This quote attributed to Evenus is from Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics. I just received the book yesterday and I’m picking out the habit passages from the book… very interesting. The Object Of Life - Moral Goodness - Moral Responsibility - Justice - Intelectual Virtues - The Nature Of Pleasure - The Kinds Of Friendship - The Grounds Of Friendship - Pleasure And The Life Of Happiness.
I’m sure Aristotle will play another large role in The Habit Code…
November 16, 2006 at 6:38 pm · Filed under What Are Habits, Habit Quotes
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. -Horace Mann
This quote is attributed to Horace Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann).
As such, Horace Mann has got the formation of habit down to a near perfect explanation. The cable can be related to the firing of neurons in the brain. Each repetition of an action produces another neuron pathway and the strengthening of the action and hence the habit.
November 11, 2006 at 4:42 pm · Filed under Habit Quotes
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. - Benjamin Franklin.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was always a pioneer in relation to Habits. His Autobiography goes in to detail of how he set about to learn virtues that were good and wrote a diary in which he recorded the times that he correctly persued a ‘good’ habit rather than a ‘bad’ habit.
Benjamin Franklin will also appear more when I’ve studied his work thoroughly.
November 10, 2006 at 2:00 pm · Filed under Habit Quotes
”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle
This quote is attributed to Aristotle. Habits are the things we do on a regular basis. Aristotle wrote about habits in his famous work Nicomachean Ethics (see wikipedia)… It is one of my basis points for The Habit Code and will be discussed further in my research.
November 10, 2006 at 11:50 am · Filed under Habit Quotes, Procrastination
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
Attributed to Napoleon Hill. It is Napoleon Hills books that have fired up my study of habits. Especially in relationship to the Foundation of Personal Development.
