Author Unknown
“Old habits die hard.”
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Joseph Kaines
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
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St. Augustine
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
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Ovid
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
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Author Unknown
“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”
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Vincent Lombardi
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
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Ovid
“Habits change into character.”
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Author Unknown
“The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.”
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Gilbert Parker
“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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Leo Aikman
“The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.”
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Henri de Lubac
“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
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Evenus
“Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued that at last becomes man himself.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.”
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Confucius
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
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Horace Mann
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
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Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
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Desiderius Erasmus
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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Zig Ziglar
“When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.”
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Emmons
“Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful people are simply those with success habits.”
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Zig Ziglar
“We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”
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Author Unknown
“Good habits result from resisting temptation.”
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Author Unknown
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."
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Charles A. Jaffe
“It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.”
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Mortimer Caplan
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
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Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
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George Washington Carver
“99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
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John Dryden
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Jim Ryun
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”~Jim Ryun
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Author Unknown
“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.”
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Nathaniel Emmons
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”
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Author Unknown
“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.”
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Samuel Johnson
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
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Rob Gilbert
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
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Albert Einstein
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”
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Author Unknown
“Habit is more important in determining our destiny than almost any other influence.”
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H. W. Shaw
“It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.”
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Aristotle
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
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Mark Twain
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
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Frank A. Clark
“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.”
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Somerset Maugham
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”
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Feodor Dostoevski
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
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Georges Gurdjieff
“ Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.”
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Wayne W. Dyer
"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."
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Tyron Edwards
“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
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Albert Gray
“Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.”
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Author Unknown
“Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!”
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Paul Myer
“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.”
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Henry Hancock
“Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.”
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Stephen R. Covey
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...”
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Author Unknown
“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.”
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Charles Dickens
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
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Earl Nightingale
“We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.”
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William James
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
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Jenny Craig
“It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.”
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Jo Coudert
“The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.”
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Charles Reader
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;/ Sow an act, and you reap a habit;/ Sow a habit, and you reap a character;/ Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
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Doug Firebaugh
“Something must die in order to grow - your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life - must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.”
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Henry Giles
“The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.”
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William James
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”
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Stephen R. Covey
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
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Author Unknown
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
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Tilloyson
“When we have practiced good actions awhile they become easy; when they are easy we take pleasure in them; when they please us we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act they grow into habit.”
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William James
“To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.”
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