George Washington Carver Quotes
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
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The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...
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What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?
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He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
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Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.
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'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
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I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
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I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
