Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Habit

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

18.

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

Eng's Principle

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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 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 change into character.

Ovid

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

33.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.