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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.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
~ Ralph Marston
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
~ Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
~ Thomas Paine
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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
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There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~ Jim Ryun
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~ Gary Ryan Blair
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~ Aristotle
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There is no influence like the influence of habit.
~ Gilbert Parker
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
~ Brian Tracy
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
~ Hippocrates
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
~ William James
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
~ Wynton Marsalis
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
~ Jules Renard
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
~ Napoleon Hill
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
~ Dale Carnegie
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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi
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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
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
~ Rene Descartes
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~ Charles Reade
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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
~ Deepak Chopra
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
~ Helen Keller
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
~ George Gurdjieff
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
~ Vince Lombardi
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We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~ Henry Adams
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I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.
~ Mahesh Babu
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
~ Mary Martin
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I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
~ Susan Orlean
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
~ Andre Maurois
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
~ James Surowiecki
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
~ Maxwell Maltz
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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
~ Tom Conti
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Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
~ Joyce Meyer
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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
~ Joe Paterno
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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
~ Paul Williams
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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
~ Steven Pressfield
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
~ Aldous Huxley
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
~ Henry Moore
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~ James Allen
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
~ James A. Baldwin
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Living, Stop, Begins
Habit is a great deadener.
~ Samuel Beckett
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
~ Napoleon Hill
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“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
~ Albert Camus, The Plague
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“We become what we repeatedly do.”
~ Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
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Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
~ Samuel Smiles
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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
~ Jim Ryun
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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
~ Mark Twain
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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~ Mark Twain
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A habit is something you can do without thinking — which is why most of us have so many of them. ~ ~ ~ Frank A. Clark
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
~ John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
~ Yiddish Proverb
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
~ St. Augustine
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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. ~ Feodor Dostoevski
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
~ Marcel Proust
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
~ Leo Aikman
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