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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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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.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911) -
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
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