Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dryden, John

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

Mann, Horace

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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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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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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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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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James, William

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

29.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eng's Principle

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

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

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Harris, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Locke, John

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