Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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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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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Locke, John

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

Dryden, John

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Martin, Mary

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

Dryden, John

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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