Motivational Quotes

Habit

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.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Whately, Richard

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Woolf, Virginia

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Johnson, Samuel

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

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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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 a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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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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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Proust, Marcel