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Habit Quotes
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
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"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
52
"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."
47
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
41
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
40
"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."
39
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
35
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."
34
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
33
"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."
33
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
33
"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
32
"Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability."
31
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
30
"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."
30
"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
30
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
29
"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."
29
"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
28
"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"
27
"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
27
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
27
"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."
26
"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
26
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
26
"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
26
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
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