Good habits result from resisting temptation.


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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Good habits result from resisting temptation
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DONNA LYNN HOPE
The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance
BETTE MIDLER
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
UNKNOWN
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
WILLIAM PENN
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FRANKLIN P. JONES
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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OSCAR WILDE
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
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ANCIENT PROVERB
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The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habi...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
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ITALO CALVINO
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ITALO CALVINO
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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
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Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
OG MANDINO
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LIBBA BRAY
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and f...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHT
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
JOSE BERGAMIN
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding
HARVEY MACKAY
Look to this day for it is life. In its brief course lie all the realities and truths of existence, ...
ANCIENT SANSKRIT PROVERB
Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.
ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
ROBERT PULLER
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING
Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits.
FARSHAD ASL
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
ARISTOTLE
The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote...
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I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
JORDAN KNIGHT
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MINA TADROS
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard t...
BECCA FITZPATRICK
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
JOHN IRVING
For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need go...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possib...
ERIC HOFFER
Having same bad habits can get you more close to each other than having similar good habits.
SUPERNA BATHEJA
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ERIC HOFFER
Change your thoughts and you Change Your Focus.Change Your Actions and you Change Your Habits.Change...
LALIT BHOJWANI
Resisting is worth doing.
VERONICA ROTH
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Make good habits and they will make you.
PARKS COUSINS
Your habits, good or bad, profoundly affect others.
JIM GENOVESE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
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PETER COYOTE
A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large e...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I don't like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.
LINNEA GELLAND
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
MARK TWAIN
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
WILLIAM PALEY
Cultivate an environment fertile for good habits to flourish
MONEY TREE MAN
I will form good habits and become their slave.
OG MANDINO
If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. STANLEY JONES
Flee temptation, withstand trial, hold unto the good and conform only to godliness.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.
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LALIT BHOJWANI
Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. TRUETT CATHY
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
TIM MCCARVER
I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
ARTEMUS WARD (WRITER)
I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT
If you move out, pick good roommates and know their habits!
JENNIFER COX
I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE
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ELIZABETH I
Speak good words over your children, never yield to the temptation of doing otherwise
SOTONYE ANGA
Quotes from Ancient Greece are mostly all bollocks
KARL WIGGINS
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FIROOZEH DUMAS
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JOHN KEATS
Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad.
NIR EYAL
Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.
AMIT KALANTRI
I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE
The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead peo...
JAYDE SCOTT
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,
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The proverb is something musty.
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