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Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Topic: Habits
Location: Arches National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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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

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

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

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

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

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Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. — William James

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. — Agatha Christie

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. — Nathaniel Emmons

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

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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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Nothing is stronger than habit. — Ovid

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

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Your habits will determine your quality of life. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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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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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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