Motivational Quotes

Habit

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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Best Quotes about Habit

1.

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.

2.

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

Whately, Richard

3.

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

4.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

5.

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

6.

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

Eng's Principle

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

14.

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

Cioran, E. M.

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Woolf, Virginia

17.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

Dryden, John

23.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

24.

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

25.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

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

Martin, Mary

28.

Habits change into character.

Ovid

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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.

31.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

34.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Bushnell, Horace

35.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

36.

Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

37.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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.

40.

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

41.

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

42.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

45.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

46.

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

Mann, Horace

47.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

48.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince