Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Bushnell, Horace

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Hubbard, Kin

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Johnson, Samuel

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.

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The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Eng's Principle

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

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

Locke, John

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Dryden, John

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

Whately, Richard

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Martin, Mary

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You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.

Scheele, Paul R.

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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