Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Habit

Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Locke, John

Habits change into character.

Ovid

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Edwards, Tryon

It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

Getty, J. Paul

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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Carnegie, Dale

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Woolf, Virginia

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Hubbard, Kin

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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.

Harris, James

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Mann, Horace

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

James, William

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Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide.

Rusk, Tom

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Twain, Mark

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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Johnson, Samuel

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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Proust, Marcel

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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Taylor, Jeremy

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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...

Giraudoux, Jean

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Hoffer, Eric

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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

James, William

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.