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[Quote No.16979] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821 - 1881) Russian novelist
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[Quote No.16980] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[poem: about habits]

All habits gather,
by unseen degrees,
as brooks make rivers,
rivers run to seas.

" - John Dryden
(1631 - 1700) English poet and author
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[Quote No.16981] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"We first make our habits and then our habits make us." - John Dyden

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[Quote No.16982] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel." - Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894) American theologian
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[Quote No.16984] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters." - Nathaniel Emmons
(1745 - 1840) American theologian
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[Quote No.16985] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself." - Evenus of Paros
(5th century BC) poet and sophist
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[Quote No.16988] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Your life is governed by your habits. Your habits are governed by you." - Walter M. Germain

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[Quote No.16990] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Every grown - up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all." - Georges Gurdjieff

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[Quote No.16991] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Consciousness is a phase of mental life, which arises in connection with the formation of new habits." - Dean William R. Inge
(1860-1954) English clergy, Dean of Westminster
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[Quote No.16992] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. [...quickly or easily]" - Francis Johnson
(1562 - 1618) English - Dutch theologian
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[Quote No.16993] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. [Drive out a bad habit with a good one.] " - Latin Proverb

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[Quote No.16994] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. [without great effort]" - Horace Mann
(1796 - 1859) American educator
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[Quote No.16995] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels." - Orison Sweet Marden
(1850 - 1924) U.S. editor and motivational author
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[Quote No.16996] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The beginning of a habit lies in an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, and add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us [almost] irrevocably, thought and act." - Orison Sweet Marden
(1850 - 1924) U. S. editor and motivational author
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[Quote No.16997] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"There are habits...of every modification of action, speech, and thought. Man is a bundle of habits; in a word, there is not a quality or function, either of body or mind, which does not feel the influence of this great law of animated nature." - William Paley
(1743 - 1805) English liberal theologian
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[Quote No.17001] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze may, in the end, prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe." - Lydia H. Sigourney
(1791 - 1865) American author
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[Quote No.17003] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit." - John Tillotson

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[Quote No.17004] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"There is nothing training [and developing new habits] cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift [the character of women and] men to angelship." - Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910) American humorist
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[Quote No.17062] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us." - Rieux Hamerton

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[Quote No.17094] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Fundamental happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Lord Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970) English sociologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.17141] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"We are happy when we are growing." - William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939) Irish dramatist and poet
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[Quote No.17198] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race." - Dio Lewis
(1823 - 1886) American physician
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[Quote No.17282] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." - Aristotle
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.17283] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw." - Jacques Benigne Bossuet
(1627 - 1704) French bishop
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[Quote No.17285] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834) English poet and critic
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[Quote No.17531] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." - Queen Christiana
(1626 - 1689) Queen of Sweden
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[Quote No.17570] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The more we do, the more we can do..." - William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830) English critic and author
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[Quote No.17591] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken on their perilous mission." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.17620] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape..." - Cotton Mather
(1663 - 1728) American clergy
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[Quote No.17627] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"It will always do to change for the better." - Bishop Thomson

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[Quote No.17639] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Though reason is progressive, instinct is stationary. Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, or the house of the beaver." - Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) English clergy
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[Quote No.17670] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin." - Robert Southey
(1774 - 1843) English poet laureate
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[Quote No.17863] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, and enterprising." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.18058] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth

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[Quote No.18070] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life." - Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821 - 1881)
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[Quote No.18071] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) German poet, dramatist and philosopher
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[Quote No.18077] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today..." - Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784) English author, lexicographer and conversationalist
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[Quote No.18085] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life." - Ralph Ransom

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[Quote No.18278] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man [and woman] that it forms." - Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821 - 1881) Swiss philosopher
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[Quote No.18290] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Man is an animal; but he is an animal plus something else. He is a mythic earth tree; whose roots are in the ground, but whose top most branches may blossom in the Heavens." - Henry George
(1839 - 1897) American politician economist
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[Quote No.18293] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Government, religion, property, books are nothing but the scaffolding to build men [and women]." - Alexander Humboldt
(1769 - 1859) German naturalist
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[Quote No.18294] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only, which constitutes real greatness." - Douglas Jerrold
(1803 - 1857) English dramatist and editor
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[Quote No.18613] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"...life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears clearer. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end." - Jean Paul Richter
(1763 - 1826) German humorist
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[Quote No.18729] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance." - John Neal
(1793 - 1876) American poet
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[Quote No.18753] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves." - Jean Guitton

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[Quote No.18809] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"...have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them. Everyday begin the task anew." - Saint Francis De Sales

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[Quote No.19009] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.19089] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being." - Ashley Montagu
(1905 - 1999) U.S. (English - born) anthropologist, author, and social commentator
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[Quote No.19090] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become." - Ashley Montagu
(1905 - 1999) U.S. (English - born) anthropologist, author, and social commentator
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