Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mann, Horace

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Martin, Mary

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Dryden, John

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dryden, John

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

Locke, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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