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Quotes about habit
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (Boyd Billy)
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. (Boyd Billy)
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. (Boyd Billy)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. (Boyd Billy)
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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. (Boyd Billy)
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. (Boyd Billy)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Boyd Billy)
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. (Boyd Billy)
Habit is ten times nature. (Boyd Billy)
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. (Boyd Billy)
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. (Boyd Billy)
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. (Boyd Billy)
Habit is a great deadener. (Boyd Billy)
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. (Boyd Billy)
Never permit failure to become a habit. (Boyd Billy)
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. (Boyd Billy)
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. (Boyd Billy)
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. (Boyd Billy)
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. (Boyd Billy)
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. (Boyd Billy)
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. (Boyd Billy)
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. (Boyd Billy)
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched. (Boyd Billy)
Make good habits and they will make you. (Boyd Billy)
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. (Boyd Billy)
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