Motivational Quotes

Habit

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.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Dryden, John

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Dryden, John

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Sockman, Ralph W.

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

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beausacq, Maria De

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

Locke, John

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

Eng's Principle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mann, Horace

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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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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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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel