Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Eng's Principle

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Dryden, John

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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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 the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dryden, John

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

Martin, Mary

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

21.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Locke, John

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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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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

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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.

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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