--- Anonymous
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
--- Desiderius Erasmus
"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune."
--- Richard Whately
"A rescuing idea is one that disagrees with your habitual nature but which agrees with Truth."
--- Vernon Howard
"A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page."
--- Hosea Ballou
"And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,/ So honour peereth in the meanest habit."
--- William Shakespeare
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
--- Anonymous
"Brenda, the only thing worse than having an addiction, is denying that you have one."
--- character Kelly Taylor, 1990 TV show Beverly Hills 90210
"Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good."
--- Benjamin Franklin
"Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions."
--- Epictetus
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
--- Rob Gilbert
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
--- John Irving
"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life."
--- Ralph W. Sockman
"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
--- Aldous Huxley
" Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."
--- Chinese Proverb
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
--- Nathaniel Emmons
"Habits are first cobwebs; then cables."
--- Author Unknown
"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
--- Nathaniel Emmons
"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny."
--- Andre Maurois
"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
--- Epictetus
"In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."
--- Ivan Illich
"In my eyes, cocaine doesn't hold a candle to this...quitting even the hardest drugs was nothing compared to [trying to quit pornography]."--- Anonymous, quoted by Dallin H. Oaks
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
--- Rollo May
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
--- Benjamin Franklin
"It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."
--- Isabel Colegate
"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."
--- William Shakespeare
"It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp."
--- Fran�ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
--- Aristotle
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
--- Aristotle
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
--- Errol Flynn
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
--- George Washington Carver
"Not choice/ But habit rules the unreflective herd."
--- William Wordsworth
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
--- Mark Twain
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, experiences."
--- Arthur M. Schlesinger
"Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or poluted food. The body has defenses to hid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornograghic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain wont vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flasshing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life."--- Dallin H. Oaks, May 2005 Ensign
"Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments."
--- M. A. Kelty
"Successful people are simply those with success habits."
--- Brian Tracy
"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
--- Samuel Johnson
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
--- Gail Sheehy
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
--- Blaise Pascal
"The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings."
--- Buddha
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
--- W. Somerset Maugham
"Very often a change of self is needed more often than a change of scene."
--- A.C. Bensen
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
--- Aristotle
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
--- John Dryden
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"
--- Barbra Streisand
"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."
--- Albert Gray
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