Habit
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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
"Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I've done it from my youth." George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832)
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." Mark Twain
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." W. Somerset Maugham [May 12, 2009
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"Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry." Warren Buffett
"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975), American author
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:Â To rise above the little things." John Burroughs
[May 21, 2008
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"A habit cannot be tossed out of the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time." Mark Twain
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." Robert Heinlein
“After you’ve done a ting the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.” Alfred Edward Perlman
“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.” W. Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)
“Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.” Frank Crane
“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.” Horace Bushnell [May 15, 2003
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“The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.” W. Somerset Maugham
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American Scientist
“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.” Maria De Beausacq |
