Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Bushnell, Horace

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eng's Principle

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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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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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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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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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 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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Martin, Mary

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

Locke, John

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

Dryden, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Dryden, John

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

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.