Motivational Quotes

Habit

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Habit

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Eng's Principle

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

Dryden, John

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mann, Horace

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Dryden, John

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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 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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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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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.