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• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Sorry, Life And Love

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• Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Practice, Ideas, Cobwebs

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• All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

  William James

  Form, Mass, Definite

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.56, Nuvision Pubns

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• I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

  Charles Dickens

  Motivational, Determination, Order

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.216

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• Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

  George Crabbe

  Truth, Curiosity, Done

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 3 'The Vicar' l. 138

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• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Masters

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Criticism

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.88, Discovery House

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• Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

  Howard Snell

  Remember, Failing, Reason

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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• Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Caught, Bad Habits

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Practice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.591, 谷月社

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• Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

  Bertrand Russell

  Privilege, Revolutionary, Institutions

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Emotional, Favour

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.31, Bertrand Russell

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• So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

  Susan Sarandon

  God, Spiritual, People

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• Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  School, Self, Boots

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• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Food, Science

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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

  Merrill Markoe

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Magic

  Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.85, Villard

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

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• Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

  William James

  Inspirational, Educational, Philosophy

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Fingernails

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  Tacitus

  Expediency, Customs

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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