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• Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Men, Lasts

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Architects of Fate”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Elegance, Refinement, Certain

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Life and manners; from The autobiography of an English opium-eater. 1851”, p.14

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• A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

  John Dewey

  Progress, Important, Use

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

  David Allen

  Blow, Decision, Feelings

  "'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.

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• Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Book, Reading, Guessing

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• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Giving, Fasting, Spirit

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Diversity, Tennis

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• Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

  Laurel Lea

  Marriage

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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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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• A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Trouble, Used

  Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.38

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• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

  Og Mandino

  Inspiring, Lying, Keys

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Stay Positive, Best Attitude

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Change, Years

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• 95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

  Aristotle

  Results

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• They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Light, Broken

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• Your habits will determine your quality of life.

  Denis Waitley

  Quality, Quality Of Life, Determine

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• Habit is a form of exercise.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Exercise, Form

  Elbert Hubbard (1907). “Little journeys to the homes of ...”

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• I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

  Saint Augustine

  Old Habits, Evil, Grace

  Sermons 180:10:1,

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• The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.

  Walter Lippmann

  Home, People, May

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• All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sacred, Affection

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.93, Transaction Publishers

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• Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

  Bret Harte

  Arsenic, Sticks, Break

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.82, VM eBooks

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