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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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"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."
30
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
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"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
22
"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."
21
"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."
21
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
19
"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."
16
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
15
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
15
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
15
"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
14
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
13
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
12
"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."
12
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
11
"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."
11
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"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."
10
"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
10
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
10
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
9
"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."
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