Motivational Quotes

Habit

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Habit

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Martin, Mary

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.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dryden, John

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

Eng's Principle

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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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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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 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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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.

Harris, James

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Locke, John

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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Habit is a form of exercise