Quotes with habits

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  • Errol Flynn My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
    Errol Flynn
    Australian-American actor (1909 - 1959)
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  • Bo Bennett Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Mark Twain Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character…
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Troward 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
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bill Hybels Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Hecht People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Walter Bagehot Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bertrand Russell Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Callie Hernandez Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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  • August Strindberg Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Brian Tracy Successful people are simply those with success habits.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Albert Gray Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
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  • Marlene Dietrich Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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