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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

Practice in time becomes second nature.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Martin, Mary

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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

Locke, John

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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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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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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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.