Success Is A Habit Which Can Be Acquired
“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
Archive for Habit Quotes
Until you have learned to be tolerant…
“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.
I Tell You, Friend, ’tis Practice Long Pursued
“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…
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good…
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit…
”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.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday…
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.
