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Habit and Tradition QuotesFamous Habit and Tradition quotes by popular authors such as Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, George Santayana, Sir John Vanbrugh, Saint Augustine and others.
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[highlight-text]Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
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[highlight-text]Custom is the law of fools.
Sir John Vanbrugh
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[highlight-text]Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more powerful than habit.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]It is well to lie fallow for a while.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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[highlight-text]The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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[highlight-text]Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
Suetonius
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[highlight-text]Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]Custom is second nature and no less powerful.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]Character is simply habit long enough continued.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
George Cabot Lodge
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[highlight-text]Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryuh
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[highlight-text]Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
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[highlight-text]It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
Raymond Radiguet
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[highlight-text]The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
Nathaniel Howe
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[highlight-text]The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
George Moore
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[highlight-text]Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
Harold Macmillan
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[highlight-text]The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.
Octavio Paz
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[highlight-text]The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Lady Astor
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[highlight-text]It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen
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[highlight-text]To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either; they keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
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[highlight-text]In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
Raymond Mortimer
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[highlight-text]She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W. Sockman
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[highlight-text]If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
Thomas Mann
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[highlight-text]Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
William James