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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam read more
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
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.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
