Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Eng's Principle

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

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Whately, Richard

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

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 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

11.

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 change into character.

Ovid

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

18.

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proust, Marcel

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Dryden, John

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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 is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Locke, John

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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 either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Cioran, E. M.