Motivational Quotes

Habit

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Habit

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Whately, Richard

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Harris, James

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Eng's Principle

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Dryden, John

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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