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Habit

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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.

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

Mann, Horace

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

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

Dryden, John

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Proust, Marcel

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Woolf, Virginia

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Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Carnegie, Dale

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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Dryden, John

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

Eng's Principle

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Martin, Mary

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...

Giraudoux, Jean

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The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it is etched.

Coudert, Jo

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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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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

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To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Twain, Mark