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Quotes about habit
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. (Boyd Billy)
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. (Boyd Billy)
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. (Boyd Billy)
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. (Boyd Billy)
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. (Boyd Billy)
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. (Boyd Billy)
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. (Boyd Billy)
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. (Boyd Billy)
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. (Boyd Billy)
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people... (Boyd Billy)
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. (Boyd Billy)
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. (Boyd Billy)
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. (Boyd Billy)
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. (Boyd Billy)
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. (Boyd Billy)
Habit is a form of exercise (Boyd Billy)
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. (Boyd Billy)
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. (Boyd Billy)
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. (Boyd Billy)
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. (Boyd Billy)
The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. (Boyd Billy)
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. (Boyd Billy)
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. (Boyd Billy)
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. (Boyd Billy)
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. (Boyd Billy)
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