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Habit

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

Practice in time becomes second nature.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Dryden, John

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Sockman, Ralph W.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Eng's Principle

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel 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.

James, William

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maltz, Maxwell

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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

James, William

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

Whately, Richard

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Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Locke, John

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.

Harris, James

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Hoffer, Eric

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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Proust, Marcel

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Edwards, Tryon

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Johnson, Samuel

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Taylor, Jeremy

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It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Dryden, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Mann, Horace

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

Getty, J. Paul

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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Hubbard, Elbert