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Habit

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

Whately, Richard

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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.

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

Dryden, John

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

Martin, Mary

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

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

Harris, James

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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 a great deadener.

Beckett, 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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

40.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

41.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Dryden, John