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

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

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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.

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

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

11.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Locke, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Eng's Principle

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

31.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Woolf, Virginia

38.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Harris, James

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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