Habit Quotes
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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...this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.
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Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.
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Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.
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Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
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I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
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Habit is Heaven's own redress:it takes the place of happiness.
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The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
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Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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The most common bad habit I have seen in traders - good and bad ones - is the inability to react correctly to market action.
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I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.
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Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
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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.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.
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Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
