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• The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mom, Children, Memories

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Taken, Passion

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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Dignity, Crime

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• I will form good habits and become their slaves.

  Og Mandino

  Slave, Habit, Form

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.11, Bantam

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

  Og Mandino

  Keys, Doors, Habit

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

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• Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, Simple, Habit

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• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Old Habits, Differences, Waiting

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Habit, Dependable

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  New Year, Time, Years

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• It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Teenage, Habit

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• Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

  Plato

  Soul, Kind, Virtue

  Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

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• A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

  Aristotle

  Goal, Habit, Motivated

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• It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

  Charlie Munger

  Quiet, Habit, Trumpets

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Berkshire Hathaway Q&A session, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

  Jordan Knight

  Thinking, Long, Enough

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• See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

  John Webster

  Children, Men, Beast

  1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

  William James

  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Giving Up, Habit, Satisfying

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• It is a good habit to thank always the bridge which takes you to the other side or to mention the name of the bridge or to take the photo of it or to repair it if you can! In short, do something good for those who do goodness for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Names, Sides

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• Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart may leap with a new inspiration on some mountain-top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain. The workshop of character is every-day life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is won or lost.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Christian, New Year

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Habit, Conditioning

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.134, Rodale

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