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

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

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Locke, John

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Martin, Mary

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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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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dryden, John

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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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Eng's Principle

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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