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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles de Gaulle

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
Adrian Grenier

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith


Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.
Wilbur Mills

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

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