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• When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mean, Self, Comfort

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• Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reason, Habit, Fixed

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

  Darren Hardy

  Hard Work, Discipline, Champion

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Nov 30, 2011

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• A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

  Darren Hardy

  Powerful, Successful, Discipline

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• Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

  Thomas Paine

  Youth, Habit, Individual

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.42, Library of America

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• My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

  David Mamet

  People, What If, Way

  "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 08, 2011.

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• We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

  Thomas Merton

  Perfection, Substance, Moral

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• I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

  Cindy Crawford

  Fighting, Balance, Trying

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• Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Boring, Habit

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

  Mel Gibson

  Using People, Green, Habit

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

  Robert Benchley

  Solitude, Next, Habit

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Reflection, Special, Energy

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Couple, Distance, Fighting

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander 'The Mauler' Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com. April 11, 2013.

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• If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Wise, Home, Water

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• It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

  Evelyn E. Smith

  Habit, Break, Easier

  Evelyn E. Smith (1989). “Miss Melville's Revenge”

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• The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Sleep, Secret, Companionship

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• Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Holiday, Kids

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.222, Crown Archetype

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• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Order, Mma, Advice

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander 'The Mauler' Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

  Thomas Lickona

  Integrity, Heart, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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• Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

  Thomas Lickona

  Character, Challenges, Vices

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• The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Want, Habit, Goodness

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