Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Whately, Richard

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Twain, Mark

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

Eng's Principle

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

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

18.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Habits change into character.