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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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

Mann, Horace

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Locke, John

12.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

16.

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

Beausacq, Maria De

17.

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

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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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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

20.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

25.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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 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

30.

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

31.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

32.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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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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

35.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

36.

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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

38.

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

39.

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Martin, Mary

45.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian