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Marcus Aurelius
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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Mark Twain
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
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Tryon Edwards
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Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
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John Dryden
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Dr. Rob Gilbert
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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
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Patrick Overton
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Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
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Mark Twain
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Frank Crane
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Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
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Confucius
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Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
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Holbrook Jackson
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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
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Charles A. Jaffe
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
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Richard Whately
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges
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W. Somerset Maugham
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Paxton Hood
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Charles Robert Darwin
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Charles Dickens
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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...
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HANNAH MORE: _Floris,_ Pt. i., Line 85.
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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Barbra Streisand
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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?
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
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DRYDEN: _Ovid's Metamorphoses,_ Bk. xv., Line 155.
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Wanda Carter
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Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We
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Ralph W. Sockman
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Theodore White
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In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may
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Stephen Covey
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Juliene Berk
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Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
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Edward C. Banfield
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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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William Graham Sumner
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Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
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Antonio Gramsci
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In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period
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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
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The universe does not have laws ... it has habits and habits can be broken.
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
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Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
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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.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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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.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
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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 th
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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
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#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated o
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." -- Twain
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding
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