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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
