Motivational Quotes

Habit

Habits change into character.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Habit

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

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

Whately, Richard

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mann, Horace

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Bushnell, Horace

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Dryden, 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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Dryden, John

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

Harris, James

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.