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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. – Hippocrates
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. – George Lois
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. – La Rochefoucauld
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. – Napolean Hill
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. – Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,
Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. – Aristotle
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. – Nathaniel Emmons
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. – Henri de Lubac
Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny. – George Dana Boardman
Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. – Elihu Burritt
How use doth breed a habit in a man. – William Shakespeare
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. – Walter Bagehot
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. – Aldous Huxley
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. – Aristotle
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. – Ernest Dimnet
Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. – T. S. Eliot
As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. – Hippocrates, Epidemics

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