Motivational Quotes

Habit

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

- Mccarver, Tim

Best Quotes about Habit

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Harris, James

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Martin, Mary

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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 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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.