Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Locke, John

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

Martin, Mary

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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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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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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 change into character.

Ovid