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

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

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 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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Eng's Principle

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

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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Dryden, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Harris, James

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

Dryden, John

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

Martin, Mary

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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