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

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

Dryden, John

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

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mann, Horace

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eng's Principle

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Martin, Mary

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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 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 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 either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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