Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

Best Quotes about Habit

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

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

Mann, Horace

Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Martin, Mary

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 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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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Whately, Richard

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Eng's Principle

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Locke, John

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.