Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Harris, James

Best Quotes about Habit

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

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.

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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Locke, John

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Eng's Principle

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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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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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.