Habit Quotes
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Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.
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Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.
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I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.
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The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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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.
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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.
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
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If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
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You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.
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A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make.
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In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
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'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
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As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
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I am a creature of habit.
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Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.
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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.
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Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.
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Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
