Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Dryden, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Harris, James

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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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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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 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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Martin, Mary

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Locke, 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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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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

48.

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

Eng's Principle

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.