Motivational Quotes

Habit

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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Best Quotes about Habit

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

Johnson, Samuel

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 change into character.

Ovid

Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Locke, John

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Eng's Principle

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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 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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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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 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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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 are as easy to form as bad ones.

Mccarver, Tim

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

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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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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Dryden, John

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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.