Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Whately, Richard

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

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

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

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Martin, Mary

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dryden, John

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Locke, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, 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 exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Habit is a form of exercise