Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Eng's Principle

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

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

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

Mann, Horace

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Twain, Mark

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

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Martin, Mary

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.