Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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.

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

Eng's Principle

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

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

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Locke, John

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

Dryden, John

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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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 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 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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Habit is a form of exercise