Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Mann, Horace

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Locke, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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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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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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 form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Eng's Principle

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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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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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 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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince