Andre Maurois Quotes

Habits change into character.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

Children and teens take in stories to the deepest imaginable level. What we put on the page can change the people they'll become and the course of their lives.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I want to keep upgrading my routines and focus on cleaning them up and being consistent.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.