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- Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
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- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
- Thomas Troward
- How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Mrs. Sigourney
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
- W. R. Inge
- The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
- Evenus
- Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
- Chinese Proverb
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