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Feeling sorry for yourself,
and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you
could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie
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NOT MANAGING YOUR TIME AND
MAKING EXCUSES ARE TWO BAD HABITS.
DON'T PUT THEM BOTH TOGETHER BY
CLAIMING YOU 'DON'T HAVE THE TIME'.
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TAKE CONTROL OF
YOUR HABITS.
TAKE CONTROL OF
YOUR LIFE
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HABITS?
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We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not
an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher and polymath
(384 BC - 322 BC)
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JOHN
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WE FIRST MAKE OUR
HABITS
THEN OUR HABITS MAKE
US
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Votes: 5

Jim Ryun

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Votes: 4

Saint Augustine

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Votes: 4

Aristotle

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Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire. Votes: 4

Mason Cooley

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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. Votes: 4

Hippocrates

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Votes: 4

Aristotle

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Votes: 4

George Washington Carver

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Votes: 4

Aristotle

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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. Votes: 4

Ralph Marston

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Habit is second nature. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Habit: Often mistaken for love. Votes: 3

Marlene Dietrich

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Habit is stronger than nature. Votes: 3

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Habit is stronger than desire. Votes: 3

Mike Murdock

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Habit is stronger than reason. Votes: 3

George Santayana

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Habit is ten times nature. Votes: 3

Duke of Wellington

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Habit is overcome by habit. Votes: 3

Thomas a Kempis

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Habit is a great deadener. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth

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Habit had made the custom. Votes: 3

Ovid

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Habit is a second nature. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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Habit was stronger than emotion. Votes: 3

Tim Wynne-Jones

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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Votes: 3

Octavia Butler

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Habit is a strong invisible prison. Votes: 3

John O'Donohue

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Habit is everything, even in love. Votes: 3

Luc de Clapiers

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Habit: The great economizer of energy. Votes: 3

Elbert Hubbard

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Habit is necessary to give power. Votes: 3

William Hazlitt

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Habit is the nursery of errors. Votes: 3

Victor Hugo

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Habit: A shackle for the free. Votes: 3

Ambrose Bierce

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Habit is a form of exercise. Votes: 3

Elbert Hubbard

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Habit has a kind of poetry. Votes: 3

Simone de Beauvoir

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Habit is the strongest thing in life. Votes: 3

Jack Black

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Habit is the great flywheel of society. Votes: 3

William James

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Habit is the daily battleground of character Votes: 3

Dan Coats

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Habit is the deepest law of human nature Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Habit is the most imperious of all masters. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Habit will reconcile us to everything but change Votes: 3

Charles Caleb Colton

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Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] Votes: 3

Thomas a Kempis

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Votes: 3

Aldous Huxley

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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature. Votes: 3

William James

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Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience. Votes: 3

Helen McCloy

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. Votes: 3

Blaise Pascal

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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. Votes: 3

William James

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Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap. Votes: 3

Jamaica Kincaid

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Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] Votes: 3

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch. Votes: 3

Nir Eyal

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Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett

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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves. Votes: 3

Jean de La Fontaine

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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett

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Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. Votes: 3

Alexander Pushkin

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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. Votes: 3

Henri de Lubac

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Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Votes: 3

Jane Hirshfield

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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. Votes: 3

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. Votes: 3

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Votes: 3

Nathanael Emmons

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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people. Votes: 3

Bret Easton Ellis

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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. Votes: 3

Horace Mann

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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. Votes: 3

Hal Boyle

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Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. Votes: 3

George Santayana

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Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. Votes: 3

Jose Marti

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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. Votes: 3

Desiderius Erasmus

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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. Votes: 3

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. Votes: 3

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] Votes: 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean... Votes: 3

Brian Jacques

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Habit is the best thing for you if youâre trying to write prose. Votes: 3

Alan Cheuse

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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. Votes: 3

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Bowen

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Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth. Votes: 3

George Crabbe

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Votes: 3

Horace Mann

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We become what we repeatedly do. Votes: 2

Sean Covey

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Successful people are simply those with successful habits. Votes: 2

Brian Tracy

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Excellence is not an act, but a habit. Votes: 2

Marva Collins

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Votes: 2

Vince Lombardi

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The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Votes: 2

Herbert Kaufman

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I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner. Votes: 2

Serena Williams

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. Votes: 2

Lillian Hellman

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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you Votes: 2

Elbert Hubbard

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. Votes: 2

John Dryden

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit. Votes: 2

Socrates

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Votes: 2

Benjamin Franklin

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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. Votes: 2

Peter Ustinov

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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. Votes: 2

Maxwell Maltz

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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Votes: 2

Brian Tracy

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Votes: 2

Thomas Paine

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Votes: 2

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. Votes: 2

Wayne Dyer

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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Votes: 2

Napoleon Hill

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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Votes: 2

Dale Carnegie

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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. Votes: 2

Thomas Woods

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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. Votes: 2

Martha Beck

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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world. Votes: 2

Felix Dennis

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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. Votes: 2

Wynton Marsalis

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 2

Sarah Vowell

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Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. Votes: 2

Richard Stallman

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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. Votes: 2

Gary Ryan Blair

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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. Votes: 2

Steven Pressfield

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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. Votes: 2

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living. Votes: 2

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Votes: 2

Vince Lombardi

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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. Votes: 2

David Nicholls

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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. Votes: 2

Hunter S. Thompson

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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. Votes: 2

Ted Danson

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You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you. Votes: 2

Brett Hoebel

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There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. Votes: 2

Peng Liyuan

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Winning is a habit. Votes: 0

Leo Durocher

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affection is a habit. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Everybody's got a habit. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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Character is long-standing habit. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Character is inured habit. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Cultivate the habit of laughter. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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Excellence has become a habit. Votes: 0

Tim Cook

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Twitter's probably my bad habit. Votes: 0

Nicola Sturgeon

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Talking's just a nervous habit. Votes: 0

Martha Grimes

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Books are a habit-forming drug. Votes: 0

Agatha Christie

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Nothing is stronger than habit. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Unpunctuality is a vile habit. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Happiness never becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Marilyn Monroe

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Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit. Votes: 0

Chip Conley

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Divorce transforms habit into drama. Votes: 0

Al Alvarez

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Humans are animals of habit. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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Smoking is a dying habit. Votes: 0

Virginia Bottomley

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Marriage is rather a silly habit. Votes: 0

John Osborne

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Change of habit cannot alter Nature. Votes: 0

Aesop

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Happiness is a habitâcultivate it. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Failure is not an American habit. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit. Votes: 0

Henry Adams

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Character is simply habit long continued. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. Votes: 0

Dorothy Thompson

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habit is our idea of eternity. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Dogs are a habit, I think. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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Lookin' back is a bad habit. Votes: 0

Charles Portis

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Not an audience but a habit Votes: 0

Gian Carlo Menotti

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I am a creature of habit. Votes: 0

Jennifer Aniston

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Sow an action, reap a habit. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Only a habit can subdue another habit. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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Get in the habit of appreciating things. Votes: 0

Michael Losier

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Turn your habit into a conscious decision. Votes: 0

Marshall Sylver

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Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts? Votes: 0

E. L. Konigsburg

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Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. Votes: 0

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Never permit failure to become a habit. Votes: 0

William Frederick Book

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Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit. Votes: 0

J. Lynn

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Life...is as habit forming as cocaine." Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT. Votes: 0

Abhishek Shukla

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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit Votes: 0

Quincy Jones

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Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming. Votes: 0

Puggy Pearson

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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi

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It takes 21 days to develop a habit. Votes: 0

Maxwell Maltz

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I am not a creature of habit. Votes: 0

Tony Visconti

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My worst habit is speaking to much Votes: 0

Robert Pattinson

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The power of habit is very strong. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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A habit does not a monk make. Votes: 0

Francois Rabelais

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I'm very much a creature of habit. Votes: 0

Eminem

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The creative habit is like a drug. Votes: 0

Henry Moore

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The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty. Votes: 0

Theodore T. Munger

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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit. Votes: 0

Justin Deeley

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit Votes: 0

Henry Brooks Adams

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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Votes: 0

Henry Adams

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Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight. Votes: 0

The Beatles

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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. Votes: 0

Arthur Koestler

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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit. Votes: 0

Pete Egoscue

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Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. Votes: 0

Hassan Fathy

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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. Votes: 0

Jack Osbourne

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Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves Votes: 0

John Flanagan

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habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ... Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive. Votes: 0

Dick Devenzio

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nothing in life is more corroding than habit. Votes: 0

Gertrude Atherton

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Profit is not an event. It's a habit. Votes: 0

Mike Michalowicz

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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep. Votes: 0

Billy Boyd

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Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate. Votes: 0

Oscar Levant

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I've been in the habit of helping people. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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True love has a habit of coming back. Votes: 0

Turcois Ominek

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Excellence is not a history, but a habit. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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It takes a habit to replace a habit. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. Votes: 0

Bryan Adams

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War is not human nature. It is a habit. Votes: 0

Gregg Braden

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Choice is always performed against a background of habit. Votes: 0

Nicholas Wolterstorff

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There is no influence like the influence of habit. Votes: 0

Gilbert Parker

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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. Votes: 0

Gottfried Leibniz

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My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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First you get a habit, then it gets you. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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What we call human nature, is actually human habit. Votes: 0

Jewel

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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Make gratitude a habit you indulge in each night. Votes: 0

Pooja Ruprell

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Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. Votes: 0

Rick Yancey

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London is a bad habit one hates to lose. Votes: 0

William Sansom

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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You have proved it is a very moral habit. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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After a while, the fear became a habit, too. Votes: 0

Celeste Ng

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For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Votes: 0

Juliette Binoche

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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. Votes: 0

Berthold Auerbach

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Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. Votes: 0

Shigeru Miyamoto

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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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To understand a new idea, break an old habit. Votes: 0

Jean Toomer

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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. Votes: 0

Cesare Pavese

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. Votes: 0

Shaquille O'Neal

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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit. Votes: 0

John Flanagan

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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot Votes: 0

Alan Brazil

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My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually. Votes: 0

Angie Sage

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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT! Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. Votes: 0

Marcel Duchamp

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Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. Votes: 0

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Votes: 0

Ernest Dimnet

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Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough. Votes: 0

Robert Rhodes James

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Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project. Votes: 0

Abigail Van Buren

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Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Aristotle

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence. Votes: 0

Ralph Alfred Habas

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. Votes: 0

Michael Jordan

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit. Votes: 0

Katherine Heigl

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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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Iâve a devil of a habit for being right. Votes: 0

Catherynne M. Valente

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Fun is about as good a habit as there is. Votes: 0

Jimmy Buffett

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It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit. Votes: 0

Melody Carlson

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Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit. Votes: 0

Grenville Kleiser

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In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! Votes: 0

Michael Jordan

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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. Votes: 0

Shaquille O'Neal

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Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. Votes: 0

Mary Lou Retton

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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit. Votes: 0

Victoria Moran

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Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. Votes: 0

John le Carre

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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. Votes: 0

Eli Roth

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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit. Votes: 0

Carolyn Heilbrun

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I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper. Votes: 0

Eric Taylor

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If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit. Votes: 0

Rich Little

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You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit. Votes: 0

Mary Daly

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Actions become very effective when they meet the habit of consistency. Votes: 0

Edmond Mbiaka

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What is a habit? Itâs just a shackle for ourselves. Votes: 0

Daniel Libeskind

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Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit. Votes: 0

Rachel Bilson

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People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit. Votes: 0

David Pogue

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Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance. Votes: 0

Stephen D. Krashen

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What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. Votes: 0

Jewel

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Votes: 0

Robert Smithson

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The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change. Votes: 0

Andy Law

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My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry. Votes: 0

Harry Styles

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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit. Votes: 0

Charles Peguy

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I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars. Votes: 0

Leonard Wibberley

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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Votes: 0

Edward Everett Hale

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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. Votes: 0

John Locke

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Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading. Votes: 0

Gene Luen Yang

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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics. Votes: 0

George McGovern

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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. Votes: 0

Heraclitus

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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. Votes: 0

Julianna Baggott

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We say the name of God, but that is only habit. Votes: 0

Nikita Khrushchev

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When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow. Votes: 0

Arthur Lydiard

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Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break. Votes: 0

Marita Golden

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. Votes: 0

Miguel de Unamuno

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it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. Votes: 0

Leo Aikman

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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. Votes: 0

David Lodge

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The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons. Votes: 0

Julio Cortazar

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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. Votes: 0

Richard Cecil

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Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit Votes: 0

John Warren Kindt

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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. Votes: 0

Joe Eszterhas

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Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought. Votes: 0

Robin Skelton

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It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit. Votes: 0

Greg Peterson

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I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is. Votes: 0

Jane Lynch

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Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit. Votes: 0

Michael Eisner

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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit. Votes: 0

Dick Van Dyke

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Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields. Votes: 0

Nuno Oliveira

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Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive. Votes: 0

Tove Lo

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It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Votes: 0

Douglas Preston

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I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else. Votes: 0

Robert M. Pirsig

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Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride. Votes: 0

Louis-Philippe I of France

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If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. Votes: 0

Richard Russo

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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. Votes: 0

Carolyn Heilbrun

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Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular. Votes: 0

Catherine McCormack

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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. Votes: 0

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess

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We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other Votes: 0

Michael Howard

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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..." Votes: 0

William James

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Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle. Votes: 0

Sam Snead

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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit. Votes: 0

William James

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The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back. Votes: 0

Dacia Maraini

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The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. Votes: 0

Mary Martin

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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now. Votes: 0

Dick Van Dyke

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I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation. Votes: 0

Lucas Hedges

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For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction... Votes: 0

Peter McWilliams

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years" Votes: 0

Tallulah Bankhead

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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. Votes: 0

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Natalie Massenet

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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years Votes: 0

Tallulah Bankhead

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Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. Votes: 0

Rohinton Mistry

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Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow. Votes: 0

Eric Nicol

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. Votes: 0

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Votes: 0

Sydney Smith

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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Votes: 0

Jules Renard

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Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. Votes: 0

Drew Barrymore

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How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that? Votes: 0

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness. Votes: 0

Theodosia Garrison

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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.] Votes: 0

Francois Rabelais

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Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life. Votes: 0

Brittany Snow

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When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. Votes: 0

Maria Mitchell

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Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit Votes: 0

Bruce Lee

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul. Votes: 0

Plato

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It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit! Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it. Votes: 0

James Cash Penney

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He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit. Votes: 0

Sylvia Day

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It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. Votes: 0

Jeanette Winterson

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with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ... Votes: 0

Han Suyin

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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. Votes: 0

Henry Van Dyke

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The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy. Votes: 0

Paul Krugman

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Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have. Votes: 0

Jon Stewart

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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. Votes: 0

Ben Elliot

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Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do. Votes: 0

Ed Foreman

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Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Votes: 0

Albert L. Gray

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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. Votes: 0

Lucille Ball

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life. Votes: 0

Margo Kaufman

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. Votes: 0

George E. P. Box

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Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish. Votes: 0

C. J. Mahaney

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It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Votes: 0

Alistair Cooke

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Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." Votes: 0

G. H. Hardy

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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. Votes: 0

Edna Ferber

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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline. Votes: 0

Ken Blanchard

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Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. Votes: 0

David Gerrold

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Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff Votes: 0

Jason Schwartzman

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward. Votes: 0

Wes Fesler

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Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature. Votes: 0

Rita Zahara

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Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it. Votes: 0

George S. Clason

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. Votes: 0

Kate Winslet

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The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big! Votes: 0

Dhirubhai Ambani

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I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is. Votes: 0

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. Votes: 0

Raymond Radiguet

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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. Votes: 0

Norman Foster

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Peter Ustinov

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit. Votes: 0

Peter Ustinov

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. Votes: 0

Sarah T. Bolton

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An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. Votes: 0

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. Votes: 0

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk. Votes: 0

Charlotte Dawson

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time. Votes: 0

Alexander Gustafsson

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Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become. Votes: 0

Joel Brown

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Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. Votes: 0

Sharon Horgan

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I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None. Votes: 0

Mila Kunis

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect. Votes: 0

David J. Schwartz

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It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. Votes: 0

Theodore Dalrymple

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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read. Votes: 0

Marilyn vos Savant

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The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths Votes: 0

Che Guevara

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The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. Votes: 0

Lin Yutang

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As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. Votes: 0

Michael Lewis

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Don't be stuck in a life that's not yours just because of a bad habit Votes: 0

Constance Chuks Friday

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I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. Votes: 0

Rakim

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Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. Votes: 0

Storm Jameson

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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read Votes: 0

Marilyn vos Savant

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If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. Votes: 0

Helen Hayes

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She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. Votes: 0

Alyssa Kress

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing. Votes: 0

Wilt Chamberlain

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I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old. Votes: 0

William Mulock

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If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands . Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. Votes: 0

Eric Thomas

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Votes: 0

David Lloyd George

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I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things. Votes: 0

Gilbert Gottfried

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The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit. Votes: 0

Jack Nicholson

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Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. Votes: 0

Jose Saramago

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No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It's a male habit. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one. Votes: 0

Denis Waitley

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I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that's a phobia but also a habit. Votes: 0

Steven Morrissey

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Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit! Votes: 0

Iyanla Vanzant

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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay. Votes: 0

Edie Campbell

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask. Votes: 0

Rhonda Byrne

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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it. Votes: 0

Gardner Hunting

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. Votes: 0

David Starr Jordan

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If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow. Votes: 0

Anna Sewell

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He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas

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I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart. Votes: 0

Jessica Fortunato

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Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past. Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character Votes: 0

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. Votes: 0

Rudyard Kipling

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Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. Votes: 0

Woody Guthrie

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Life how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. Votes: 0

V. S. Pritchett

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord. Votes: 0

Joni Eareckson Tada

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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. Votes: 0

Paul Auster

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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Votes: 0

Alan Paton

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Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break. Votes: 0

Imtiaz Dharker

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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit. Votes: 0

Anthony Newley

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I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast. Votes: 0

John Webster

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I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Votes: 0

Andre Maurois

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If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones. Votes: 0

lecrae

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A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make Votes: 0

Boonaa Mohammed

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If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love. Votes: 0

Eric Kripke

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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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El pudor tiene la desventaja de que habitúa a mentir.

Stendhal

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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

Gautama Buddha

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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

George Washington

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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Socrates

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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

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The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Doug Henning

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Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

George Crabbe

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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

John Hewson

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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

Napoleon Hill

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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

William Hazlitt

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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

Anthony Trollope

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Aristotle

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To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

George Foreman

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That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Mary Russell Mitford

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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Aristotle

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Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

John Climacus

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

John Steinbeck

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...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

Jose Saramago

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It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Josh Billings

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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

Marilyn Monroe

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Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Mira Grant

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we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

Richard Carlson

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Voltaire

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You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

Brian Tracy

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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Charles Duhigg

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I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

Christoffer Boe

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

George S. Patton

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John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

Stephen Colbert

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My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

Eva Longoria

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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Garrison Keillor

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Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Napoleon Hill

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A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

Douglas Merrill

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We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Errico Malatesta

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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Napoleon Hill

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Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

Robin Sharma

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I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

Charles Duhigg

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You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

David Ryan

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Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

Marie Forleo

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In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

Sylvester Stallone

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I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Winston Churchill

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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Orson Scott Card

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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,

A.C. Grayling

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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Charles R. Swindoll

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Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

Peter S. Beagle

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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Sam Snead

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It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Roberto Benigni

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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Frank A. Clark

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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Miguel de Unamuno

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The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

Tom Fitton

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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

Alice Meynell

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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Don DeLillo

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I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Elbert Hubbard

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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Marva Collins

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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

Saib Tabrizi

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Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Jonathan Maberry

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The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

Lettie Cowman

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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Nana Mouskouri

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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Gary W. Keller

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What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

John Spence

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Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

Ralph Marston

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Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.

Devra Davis

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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Epictetus

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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

J. R. R. Tolkien

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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

Judy Grahn

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Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Maria Edgeworth

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I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

Stan Getz

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As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana

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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno

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Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

Marco Rubio

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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Diane Ackerman

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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Henry James

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Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Milan Kundera

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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Pythagoras

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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Louis Kronenberger

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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

Ron Paul

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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Ovid

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I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

Andrew VanWyngarden

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Aristotle

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I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

Jack Nicklaus

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He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Louis de Bernieres

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Mark Twain

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Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Peter R. Mansoor

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I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

SZA

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Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.

John O'Donohue

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Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Josef Pieper

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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Charles Duhigg

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It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Errol Flynn

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It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

Evelyn E. Smith

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Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Henry Ford

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I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Herb Alpert

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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

John Brunner

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Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.

Nir Eyal

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It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.

Patrick Holford

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Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

Charles Duhigg

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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

J. C. Ryle

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This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

John Armstrong

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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Hannah More

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I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]

Kerry Katona

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Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

Storm Jameson

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The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

Albert L. Gray

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If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.

Charles R. Swindoll

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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

Cynthia Ozick

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Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Denis Waitley

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Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

Robin S

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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Seneca the Younger

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The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Thomas A. Edison

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Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Brian Tracy

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Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Charles Duhigg

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As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

William Harvey

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We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Helen Rowland

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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Dana Perino

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The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

Gabriel Fielding

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Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

John Todd

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I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Martha Beck

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A relationship needs constant attention. It's a living thing, not just a habit. You've got to keep on top of it.

Matt Dunn

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Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

Robert Benchley

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I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Sacha Guitry

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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Claude Monet

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A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. Itâs not easy once youâre out of the habit.

Dashiell Hammett

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[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

James Madison

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

Mother Teresa

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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Thomas a Kempis

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For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Dario Fo

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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.

Martine Batchelor

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Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Sarah Dessen

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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo

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If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Eckhart Tolle

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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

John Dewey

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Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Richard J. Foster

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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

T. E. Hulme

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The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Carl von Clausewitz

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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

Michel de Montaigne

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Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet..

Mira Grant

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Norman Cousins

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If YOU want to BUILD and MAINTAIN a POSITIVE ATTITUDE, get into the habit of LIVING IN THE PRESENT and DOING IT NOW.

Shiv Khera

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It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Deborah Norville

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Laozi

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I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

Mick Jagger

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Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Patricia Hampl

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Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!

Darren Hardy

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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Florence Nightingale

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I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.

Gwenno

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Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Hunter S. Thompson

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The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

L. Bruce Archer

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The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Napoleon Hill

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

William Zinsser

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The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Daniel Coyle

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Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Debbie Macomber

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There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.

Doug Stanhope

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Jane Austen

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[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Auguste Piccard

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There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

Bill Maher

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But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

George D. Prentice

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It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Joel Osteen

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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

William H. Gass

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It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

Burt Prelutsky

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No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Diana Gabaldon

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The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Eckhart Tolle

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Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

Jude Bijou

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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louis Pasteur

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The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

Peace Pilgrim

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Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Arthur Koestler

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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

E. B. White

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I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

Esha Gupta

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It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

Muriel Spark

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Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

Nicholas Sparks

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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

Brian Tracy

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The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Charlotte Mason

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Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Edward Gibbon

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To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Epictetus

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But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

John Steinbeck

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The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person,

Nelson Mandela

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The habit of giving up when the present task is half ï¬nished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

Christian D. Larson

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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

Gautama Buddha

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...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

John French Sloan

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YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Terry Pratchett

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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

Tim Ferriss

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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

William Feather

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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Albert Einstein

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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

Isabel Colegate

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In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

Joseph Albo

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Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Ronald Syme

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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Stephen Covey

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If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Erma Bombeck

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At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Jonathan Tropper

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I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

Will Rogers

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Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

David Hume

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I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

Jim Goad

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We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.

John Green

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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

John Mortimer

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The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

Lucian Freud

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Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don't make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

T. S. Eliot

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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Thomas Jefferson

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

William Hazlitt

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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Aristotle

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There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

Craig Groeschel

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The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

David Hume

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Rupert Sheldrake

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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Virginia Woolf

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People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

Ward Churchill

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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Charles Horton Cooley

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Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

Diogenes Laertius

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The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

Ronald Reagan

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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

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You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

Greg Plitt

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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Marcel Duchamp

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The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Michael Phelps

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You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.

Tom Berenger

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The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

Bernard Gilpin

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Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

J. C. Watts

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Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

Jack LaLanne

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How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

John Steinbeck

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You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

Deepak Chopra

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Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

Lovell Rousseau

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Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

Matt Cutts

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We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

Steve Hagen

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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Emily Bronte

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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

T.H. White

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Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

Daniel Quinn

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What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country,

John Toshack

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Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Rick Yancey

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I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Winston Churchill

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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Benjamin Cardozo

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The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

James Webb Young

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I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

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Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Lewis Howard Latimer

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Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

Rita Mae Brown

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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Oliver Goldsmith

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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois

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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

Epictetus

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Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Julia McNair Wright

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For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Louise Hay

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To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

Marty Neumeier

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I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud

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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Charles Dickens

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I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

Joel Stein

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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Randall Jarrell

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Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Samuel Smiles

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There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Brooks Atkinson

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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Edmund Burke

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

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Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

Jim Stafford

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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Marcel Proust

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Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

Narendra Modi

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Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.

Carl Holmes

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I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

John Dillinger

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You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Marian Keyes

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each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

Storm Jameson

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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

Susan Griffin

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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Ann Voskamp

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Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Eckhart Tolle

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Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

Helen Kieran Reilly

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They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

Koichi Tohei

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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Napoleon Hill

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The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Philibert Joseph Roux

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I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

Shane McCrae

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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Thucydides

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Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

Zig Ziglar

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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Ouida

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[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Margaret Cho

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However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

Paul Gauguin

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The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

Rich Hall

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Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

Alexander Hamilton

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I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

Arthur Jafa

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We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

Chris Cleave

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Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Eileen Caddy

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Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Joseph Grew

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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rebecca West

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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

Elisabeth Elliot

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What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Epictetus

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the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Marjorie Holmes

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Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Rebecca Stead

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Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Pope Pius X

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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things