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

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

Dryden, John

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.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Dryden, John

21.

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

Harris, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eng's Principle

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

41.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Locke, John

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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.