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Habit Quotes


"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."


"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."


"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."


"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."


"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."


"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."


"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."


"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."


"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."


"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."


"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."


"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."


"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."


"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."


"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."


"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."


"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."


"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."


"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."


"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."


"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."


"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear."


"Vices are often habits rather than passions."


"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"


"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."


"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
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