Motivational Quotes

Habit

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Habit

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

Mann, Horace

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

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

Make good habits and they will make you.

Cousins, Parks

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.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

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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Habit is a form of exercise

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

Book, William Frederick

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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How use doth breed a habit in man!

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eng's Principle

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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.