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

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.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Locke, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Eng's Principle

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Dryden, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mann, Horace

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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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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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 change into character.

Ovid

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

Martin, Mary

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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