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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, Can Do

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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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• The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Persistence

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• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

  Elbert Hubbard

  Old Habits, Advice, Should

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Habit: The great economizer of energy.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Energy

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• Habit is ten times nature.

  Duke of Wellington

  Ten

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• Nothing is stronger than habit.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Humor, Deep Thought

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• To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

  Epictetus

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• Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

  Kim Stanley

  Despair, Defense, Patterns

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• Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

  Jeff Olson

  Successful, People, Form

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.72, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

  Mira Grant

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Break

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

  Robert Genn

  Blow, Miracle, Insecurity

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Kindness, Practice

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• Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

  Charles J. Givens

  Strategy, Achieve, Optimum

  Charles J. Givens (1992). “Wealth Without Risk for Canadians”, Stoddart

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• Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Positive Words, Behavior

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

  Agatha Christie

  Ghouls, People, Literature

  Agatha Christie (2016). “The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Power, Bears

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

  John Irving

  Generosity, Good Habits

  John Irving (1980). “3 by Irving”, Random House Incorporated

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• To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fall, Bad Habits, Cease

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.225, Princeton University Press

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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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• Habit: A shackle for the free.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nihilism, Shackles

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Habit had made the custom.

  Ovid

  Made, Customs

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• Habit is a second nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.772, Stanford University Press

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