Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Locke, John

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

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Harris, James

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Martin, Mary

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eng's Principle

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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

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