Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolf, Virginia

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

Break a bad habit -- drop it

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

11.

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

Locke, John

12.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

Harris, James

16.

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

Whately, Richard

17.

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

Givens, Charles J.

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

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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The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it is etched.

Coudert, Jo

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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.

24.

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

Martin, Mary

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

Eng's Principle

30.

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

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

31.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

32.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

41.

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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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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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.

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

Dryden, John

45.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

46.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.