Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Dryden, 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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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 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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Harris, James

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Martin, Mary

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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