Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Habit

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Givens, Charles J.

Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Martin, Mary

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Dryden, John

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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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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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Locke, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eng's Principle

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

Harris, James