Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Beausacq, Maria De

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

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

Whately, Richard

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Martin, Mary

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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.

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Eng's Principle

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dryden, John

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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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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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 are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Bushnell, Horace