A Quote by Quintus Curtius Rufus

Habit is stronger than nature.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Quintus Curtius Rufus
Roman - Author
41 - 54

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well.

Joaquin Sorolla

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

Desmond Tutu

It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.

Nnedi Okorafor

Habit was stronger than emotion.

Tim Wynne-Jones

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Ovid

Habit is stronger than desire.

Mike Murdock

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Helen McCloy

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

George S. Patton

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Pope Benedict XVI

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

John Steinbeck

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.