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

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

Proust, Marcel

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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.

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Harris, James

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.

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

Dryden, John

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

Dryden, John

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Locke, John

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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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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Whately, Richard

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Eng's Principle

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Martin, Mary

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

Hubbard, Kin

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