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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain, 70th birthday speech
Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide.
Tom Rusk
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Chinese Proverb
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Evenus
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.
Mark Twain, attibuted
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
Jo Coudert
Make good habits and they will make you.
Parks Cousins
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Blaise Pascal
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
John Locke
