Motivational Quotes

Habit

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Habit

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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.

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

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

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Harris, James

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Dryden, John

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Martin, Mary

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Eng's Principle

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

Locke, John

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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.