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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.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“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.”

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”

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Book:Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

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Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.”

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

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Author:Jim Ryun

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

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Author:Confucius

“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.”

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

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Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“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.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.”

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Author:Frank A. Clark

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

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“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.”

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Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“I will form good habits and become their slaves.”

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Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.”

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Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.”

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Book:Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.”

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Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“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.”

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Book:Og Mandino

Source: Og Mandino

“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.”

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Book:The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

“Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.”

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Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.”

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Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.”

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Author:Rodney Atkins

“You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.”

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Author:Al Kaline

“When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. 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.”

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Author:Charles Duhigg

“There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.”

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Author:Charles Duhigg

“We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.”

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Author:Sakyong Mipham

“I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.”

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Author:Joseph Addison

“But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.”

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Book:The Game

Source: The Game

“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”

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Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

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Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.”

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Author:Orrin Woodward

“It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.”

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Author:Melody Carlson

“Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.”

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Book:Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Source: Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

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

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Author:William James

“Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.”

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Author:Tim McCarver

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

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Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”

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Author:John Dryden

“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

“Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”

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Book:Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

“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.”

“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?”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

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

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Author:Richard G. Scott

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