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

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.

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

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

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mann, Horace

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

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, 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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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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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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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 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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Dryden, John

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

Locke, John

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Dryden, John

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

Eng's Principle

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.