"Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into."

Unknown, Source on habit   

"Habit is a form of exercise"

Hubbard, Elbert on habit
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"Habits change into character."

Ovid on habit
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"Habit is stronger than reason."

Santayana, George on habit
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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on habit   

"Successful people are simply those with success habits."

Tracy, Brian on habit   

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Twain, Mark on reform
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"Character is simply habit long continued."

Plutarch on character
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on habit
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"When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby."

Proverb, Jewish on leisure   

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Ryun, Jim on motivation
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"Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself."

Evenus on habit   

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on habit   

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

Christie, Agatha on habit
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"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."

Martin, Mary on habit
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"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you."

Gilbert, Dr. Rob on habit   

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

Kaufman, Herbert on failure
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Edwards, Tryon on destiny
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"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny."

Maurois, Andre on character
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"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."

Inge, Dean William R. on consciousness   

"Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!"

Unknown, Source on fear
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"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

Unknown, Source on character
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"We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny."

Unknown, Source on destiny
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"You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing."

Scheele, Paul R. on habit   

"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."

Sigourney, Lydia on habit   

"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."

Stone, W. Clement on control   

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."

Book, William Frederick on habit
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"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

Tracy, Brian on winners and winning