habits

There is nothing so habit forming as money.

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence.

Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act; Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit; Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny.

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.