Quotes about Habit (page 2)

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“Successful people are simply those with success habits.”
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“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.”
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“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”
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“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
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“Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.”
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“Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.”
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“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.”
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“To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.”
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“Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.”
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“Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.”
— Evenus
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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
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“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
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“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
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“The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.”
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“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
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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.”
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“The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.”
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“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.”
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“The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.”
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“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.”
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“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”
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“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.”
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“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
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“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
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“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.”
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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 etched.”
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