A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Habit is a second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

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

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

William James

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Blaise Pascal

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

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.

Rita Zahara

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

African Spir

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Twyla Tharp

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

Michael Phelps

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Marcel Proust

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

Anthony Trollope

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Tryon Edwards

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