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Vince Lombardi

Success is a habit; unfortunately so is losing.

Topic: Habits
Location: Hawaii, Maui
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine

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What you know is as important as who knows you. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Ambition can creep as well as soar. — Edmund Burke

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We first make our habits, then our habits make us. — John Dryden

Discipline Habits Life Thinking

A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest, and finally the boss. — Hungarian Proverb

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

› Samuel Smiles

Character Destiny Habits Thinking

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

› Bertrand Russell

Belief Conviction Habits

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson

Character Habits Honesty Truth

Every man is where he is and what he is because of his establish habits of thoughts and deeds. — Napoleon Hill

Action Choice Decision Habits Work

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Appreciation Awareness Gratitude Habits Kindness

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal

Habits Integrity Strength Virtue

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

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

› Paul J. Meyer

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain

Discipline Habits Perseverance

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the same. — Marcel Proust

Habits Inspiration Passion Time

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. — Persian Proverb

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

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. — Jim Rohn

Nothing is stronger than habit. — Ovid

Habits Strength

In most cases, it takes only a few minor adjustments to dramatically improve performance. — Jeffrey Benjamin

No man can go through life successfully without the habit of cultivating friends. — Napoleon Hill

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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

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Make happiness part of every day. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain

Change Habits Time

Habits change into character. — Ovid

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

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