Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Locke, John

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

Dryden, John

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Martin, Mary

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Dryden, John

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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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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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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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Cioran, E. M.