Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Habit

Break a bad habit -- drop it

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Locke, John

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.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Whately, Richard

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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 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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

34.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.