Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Habit

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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

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

Harris, James

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Dryden, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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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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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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 chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Martin, Mary

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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