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"Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve."
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
"Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit."
"...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself."
"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off."
"Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'"
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd."
"I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me."
"It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes."
"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
"Happiness never becomes a habit."
"It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*"
"It takes a habit to replace a habit."
"One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths."
"Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do."
"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr."
"Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily."
"Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us."
"A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated."
