Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Eng's Principle

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Martin, Mary

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.

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

Harris, James

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James, William

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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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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Dryden, John

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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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Locke, John

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.