Motivational Quotes

Habit

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Best Quotes about Habit

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Locke, John

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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 a great deadener.

Beckett, 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.

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

Martin, Mary

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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 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 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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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 form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dryden, John

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

Harris, James

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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 shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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.