The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
It takes a habit to replace a habit.
People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
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.
First you get a habit, then it gets you.
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.
The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.
The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
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