Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

Habits change into character.

Ovid

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Twain, Mark

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Eng's Principle

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

15.

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

Whately, Richard

16.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

17.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Harris, James

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

Dryden, John

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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Locke, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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