Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Mann, Horace

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

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Locke, John

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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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 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 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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Eng's Principle

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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