Motivational Quotes

Habit

Laws are never as effective as habits.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Gilbert, Dr. Rob

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.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

Habits change into character.

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Habit is a great deadener.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Eng's Principle

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Martin, Mary

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

Harris, James

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, 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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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