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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.: E. F. Benson
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)
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.: Juliene Berk
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.: Author Unknown
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

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