Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Twain, Mark

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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 are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Martin, Mary

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Eng's Principle

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proust, Marcel