Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Dryden, John

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

Dryden, John

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.

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

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

10.

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

11.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

15.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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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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

21.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

29.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Locke, John

35.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harris, James

42.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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

45.

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

Eng's Principle

46.

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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

48.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Woolf, Virginia