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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Beausacq, Maria De

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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

23.

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

Eng's Principle

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

29.

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

30.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Proust, Marcel

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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 either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dryden, John

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel