Bad Habits Quotes

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Freedom, Recovery, Catholic

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

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• Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

  Chuck Knox

  Wrestling, Games, Sound

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• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sin, Habit, Turns

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• Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Enemy, Want, Habit

  Joyce Meyer (2013). “Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviours That Will Energise Your Life”, p.11, Hachette UK

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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

  Failure, Thinking, Habit

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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• Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

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• To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, Role Models, Roles

  "You Need To Give Up These 7 Mental Habits If You Want To Be Successful" by Elle Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2017.

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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Time, People, Age

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• A man may have no bad habits and have worse

  Mark Twain

  Men, May, Habit

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Punishment, Done

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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• A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, White, Ink

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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Dignity, Crime

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

  David James

  School, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

  Marilu Henner

  Sex, Romance, Habit

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• It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Improvement

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

  Jose Bergamin

  Definitions, Habit

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• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Habit, Disappear

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