Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Topic: Habits
Location: Grand Canyon National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. — Benjamin Franklin

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Success is a habit; unfortunately so is losing. — Vince Lombardi

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So is cheerfulness, or good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates

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It is easier to stay out than get out. — Mark Twain

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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

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Moral virtue is the child of habit.

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We shape our buildings: thereafter, our buildings shape us. — Winston Churchill

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. — Epictetus

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

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. — Napoleon Hill

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

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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

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

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