Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

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

Dryden, John

Habits change into character.

Ovid

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Locke, John

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

Eng's Principle

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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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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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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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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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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert