I like it: I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. Robert E. Lee

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You only have to do something until you want to do it, then you won't have to do it any more. Leland Val Vandewall

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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy

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The common denominator of success - the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do. Albert Gray

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper and then put them in my mouth. Mignon McLaughlin

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle

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Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue. William Havard

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Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. William James

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Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure. Jeff Olson

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There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't. Jeff Olson

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Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't. Jeff Olson

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain

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Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him. Bill Russell

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Good habits are difficult to acquire, but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to acquire, but difficult to live with. Zig Ziglar

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Anonymous

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All bad habits start slowly and gradually and before you know you have the habit, the habit has you. Zig Ziglar

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There is really no such thing as eliminating a habit. You must replace the bad habit with a good one. Zig Ziglar

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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. Abigail Van Buren

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

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle

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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. Frank Clark

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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. George Crane

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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. Napoleon Hill

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon

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Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken. Horace Mann

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To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. Robyn Davidson

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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits. Stephen Covey

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Men form habits and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones. Albert Gray

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Any resolution or decision you make is simply a promise to yourself, which isn't worth a tinker's dam unless you have formed the habit of making it and keeping it. And you won't form the habit of making it and keeping it unless right at the start you link it with a definite purpose that can be accomplished by keeping it. In other words, any resolution or decision you make today has to be made again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next, and so on. And it not only has to be made each day, but it has to be kept each day, for if you miss one day in the making or keeping of it, you've got to go back and begin all over again. But if you continue the process of making it each morning and keeping it each day, you will finally wake up some morning a different man in a different world, and you will wonder what has happened to you and the world you used to live in. Albert Gray

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When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem. Emil Zatopek

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The best way to treat a vice is to plant an opposing virtue. Kevin Leman

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Mike Murdock

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Nothing that is what it is by nature can be made different by habituation. Aristotle

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If you want to make a habit of something, the worst thing you can do is pick and choose which days of the week you do it and which ones you don't. Scott Adams

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You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. Timothy Ferriss

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The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity. Jordan Peterson

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It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives, and time spent the same way over and again adds up at an alarming rate. Jordan Peterson

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