Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Eng's Principle

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop 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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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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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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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Martin, Mary

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Harris, James

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Whately, Richard

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Locke, John

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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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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

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

Dryden, John

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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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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