Motivational Quotes

Habit

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

- Beausacq, Maria De

Best Quotes about Habit

1.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

2.

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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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 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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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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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

7.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

8.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

9.

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

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

12.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

17.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

20.

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

Bushnell, Horace

21.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

25.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.

26.

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

27.

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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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

29.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

30.

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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.

33.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

34.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Mann, Horace

35.

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

Martin, Mary

36.

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

Harris, James

37.

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.

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Dryden, John

40.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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