Motivational Quotes

Habit

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.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whately, Richard

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

Harris, James

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.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

13.

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

14.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

15.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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

17.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

29.

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

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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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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

34.

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

Givens, Charles J.

35.

Break a bad habit -- drop it

36.

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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Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Dryden, John

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

Martin, Mary

48.

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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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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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