Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Harris, James

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Dryden, John

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

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.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Dryden, John

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

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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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 is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Harris, James

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Locke, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, 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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.