To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.
Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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.
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
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