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Benjamin Franklin

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

Topic: Habits

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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

Habits change into character. — Ovid

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee

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

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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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Make happiness part of every day. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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

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

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

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

Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James

Nothing is stronger than habit. — Ovid

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How use doth breed a habit in man. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accountability Habits Responsibility

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