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Habit

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

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Best Quotes about Habit

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

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

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Beausacq, Maria De

10.

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

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

17.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

19.

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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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

22.

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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Harris, James

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

33.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Dryden, John

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Habits change into character.

Ovid