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  • If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann
  • Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. - Orison Swett Marden
  • Practice in time becomes second nature. - unknown
  • Habits change into character. - Ovid
  • Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. - Blaise Pascal
  • Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. - Blaise Pascal
  • The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. - Marcel Proust
  • Good habits result from resisting temptation. - Proverb
  • The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act. - Orison Swett Marden
  • It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it. - unknown
  • There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this. - unknown
  • There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. - unknown
  • Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants. - unknown
  • As a twig is bent the tree inclines. - Virgil
  • A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately
  • Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. - Virginia Woolf
  • Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually. - unknown
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