Motivational Quotes

Habit

Make good habits and they will make you.

- Cousins, Parks

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Locke, John

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

Dryden, John

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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 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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Eng's Principle

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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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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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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 shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Martin, Mary

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Whately, Richard

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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