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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel 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.
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William James Quotes

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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Georges Gurdjieff Quotes

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
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Jim Ryun Quotes

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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
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Feodor Dostoevski Quotes

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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
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Spanish Proverb Quotes

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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St. Augustine Quotes

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Horace Mann Quotes

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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
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Yiddish Proverb Quotes

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The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
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Leo Aikman Quotes

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Enduring habits I hate. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
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Eng's Principle Quotes

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Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
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Confucius Quotes

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Mark Twain Quotes

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Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.
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Frank Crane Quotes

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