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Sagt av |
| Det är konstigt med vanor man vet aldrig själv att man har dem | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Allt blir en vana. | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Artighet är konsten att välja bland sina innersta tankar. | Fjodor Dostojevskij (1821-1881) |
| Den andra halvan av en människas liv består bara av vanor som förvärvats under den första halvan. | Fjodor Dostojevskij (1821-1881) |
| Den som har fått till vana att skriva, skriver också när han inget har att säga liksom den gamle läkaren som tog pulsen på den fåtölj där han satt och dog. | Antoine de Rivaroli (1753-1801) |
| Det finns inget säkrare botemedel mot samvetet än vanan. | Islandsk Ordtak |
| Det invanda sämre har mer makt hos mig än det ovana bättre. | Islandsk Ordtak |
| Dålig vana blir bara värre med tiden | Islandsk Ordtak |
| Dålig vana har långa rötter. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Dålig vana har många rötter | Norsk Ordtak |
| En dålig vana är värre än en farlig sjukdom | Dansk Ordtak |
| En får hoppas på vanans makt | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| En gång är ingen gång, två gånger är en vana. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| En gång är ingen gång,två gånger är en vana | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Gamla vanor är starka och avundsjuka. | Dorthea Brande |
| Gör artighet till en vana, bli vanartig. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| Jag gör min plikt, men bara inom mitt distrikt... | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| Kärlekens dödligaste fiende är vanan. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| När man äntligen har lärt sig ha överseende med folks ovanor skaffar de sig genast nya. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Som hundar, som kommer tillbaka till den hand som piskar dem för att slicka den, så vänder många människor tillbaka till de överträdelser, som utgör deras ruin. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Vanan biter hårdast. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Vanan försonar oss med allt | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Vanan är kärlekens dödfiende | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
| Vanan är tidens kraft. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Vanans makt är stor. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Vaner er mærkelige ting. Selv ved folk aldrig, at de har dem. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Jeg elsker kedelige ting. Jeg kan godt lide, at ting er på samme måde igen og igen. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| Det lader faktisk til, at den anden halvdel af et menneskes liv ikke består af andet end de vaner, han har samlet sig under første halvdel | Fjodor Dostojevskij (1821-1881) |
| Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. | Henri de Lubac |
| Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. | Henry Moore (1898-1986) |
| Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. | Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) |
| Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves | Horace Bushnell |
| A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page | Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) |
| How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan | John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) |
| Habits are the shorthand of behavior | Julie Henderson |
| A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit | Latin Proverb |
| I got nasty habits; I take tea at three | Mick Jagger (1943-) |
| Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters | Nathaniel Emmons |
| Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits | Robert Puller |
| Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. | Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. | Frank Crane (1861-1928) |
| A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us | George Moore (1873-1958) |
| As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. | Hippocrates |
| Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. | Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) |
| It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way | Rollo May (1909-1994) |
| Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
| Habit is a great deadener. | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters | Nathaniel Emmons |
| Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits | Robert Puller |
| Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... | Stephen R. Covey |
| Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last | Chinese Proverbs |
| Habits if not resisted soon become necessity | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. | Proverb |
| Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. | Henry Hancock |
| Quality is not an act, it is a habit. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Character is long-standing habit. | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming. Sometimes gets me in trouble too. But the truth is I could no more stop dreaming, than I could make them all come true. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves | Horace Bushnell |
| Old habits are strong and jealous | Dorthea Brande |
| Habit is a shackle for the free. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory | Austin O'Malley |
| Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Habit will reconcile us to everything but change | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Habit is a form of exercise | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us | George Moore (1873-1958) |
| Celibates replace sentiment by habits | George Moore (1873-1958) |
| Habit is stronger than reason | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. | Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) |
| Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| A man may have no bad habits and have worse | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Habit is the deepest law of human nature | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Habit is everything, even in love. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| Habit is the nursery of errors. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. | William James (1842-1910) |