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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

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• Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Evil, Causes

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• The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Self, Discipline

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• 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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• The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.

  Wess Roberts

  Conquer

  Wess Roberts (1992). “Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich: Lessons in Personal Achievement”, Harper Perennial

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• Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

  Henri de Lubac

  Powerful, Change Is Good, Routine

  Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

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• Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Healthy Habits, Deny

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• Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Action, Enough, Reflexes

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Creativity, Good Work

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch your actions, they become your habits.

  Winston Churchill

  Watches, Action

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• Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Discipline, Choices, Today

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• Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

  Og Mandino

  Keys, Doors, Bad Habits

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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• Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

  Horace Bushnell

  Moving, Blood, Soul

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• The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

  Bernard Gilpin

  Struggle, Temptation, Virtue

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• If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

  John Dryden

  Art, Vices, Slave

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• Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Arbitrary, Masters, Submit

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• Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

  William James

  Uprising, Agents, Wheels

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

  Marcel Proust

  Proportion, Absurdity, Direct

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• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Life, Change, Men

  Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”

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