Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habit is a form of exercise

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Habit

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Locke, John

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

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dryden, John

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dryden, John

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it