Motivational Quotes

Habit

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

- Mccarver, Tim

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

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

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

Whately, Richard

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Dryden, 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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Dryden, John

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Martin, Mary

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

Woolf, Virginia

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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