Motivational Quotes

Habit

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

- Mccarver, Tim

Best Quotes about Habit

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.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Twain, Mark

Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dryden, John

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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 exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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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 great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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Habits change into character.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Eng's Principle

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Locke, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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