Bad Habits Quotes

• 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, Habit

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Enemy, Want, Habit

  Joyce Meyer (2013). “Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviours That Will Energise Your Life”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, Role Models, Roles

  "You Need To Give Up These 7 Mental Habits If You Want To Be Successful" by Elle Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2017.

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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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• 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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• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Punishment, Done

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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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• Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

  Eubie Blake

  People, Might, Habit

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• The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

  Jerome Hines

  Way, Habit

  Jerome Hines (1997). “The Four Voices of Man”, p.4, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

  Layne Staley

  Titles, Talent, Habit

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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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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• Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

  Harvey Mackay

  Addiction, Benefits, Rewards

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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• Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Fitness Motivational, Two, Together

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Habit, Caught

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• If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Giving

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  Carlos Santana

  People, Excuse, Habit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Habit, Contagious, Measles

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fall, Habit, Cease

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

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• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Strength, Giving Up

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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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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