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• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Old Habits

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

  Quincy Jones

  Excellence

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Winning, Sometimes

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• Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Memories, Fighting, Past

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• If you want to change your art, change your habits.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Want, Ifs

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• When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

  Jasper Johns

  Procedures

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• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Change, Order

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Years, Liberty

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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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• Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
  [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Wrinkles, Smooth

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

  Aristotle

  Art, Academic Excellence, Training

  "The Story of Philosophy". Book by Will Durant, p. 76, 1926.

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Ocean, Dedication

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• How use doth breed a habit in a man.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Use

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 1

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• Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Positive, Pain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Mean

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Religious, Exercise

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• Habit is everything, even in love.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Watch your habits, they determine your character.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Watches, Determine

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• I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

  Pete Newell

  Believe, Boards, Pieces

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