Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Habit

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Locke, John

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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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