Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Martin, Mary

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Eng's Principle

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

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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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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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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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