Habit Quotes
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.Habit
Adler, Mortimer J.
1902 American Educator Philosopher
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Habit is ten times nature.
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1769-1852 British Statesman Military Leader
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Ballou, Hosea
1771-1852 American Theologian Founder of Universalism
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
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Beausacq, Maria De
Habit is a great deadener.
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Beckett, Samuel
1906-1989 Irish Dramatist Novelist
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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Berk, Juliene
Habit is a shackle for the free.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Never permit failure to become a habit.
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Book, William Frederick
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
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Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
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Bushnell, Horace
1802-1876 American Congregational Minister Theologian
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Carnegie, Dale
1888-1955 American Author Trainer
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.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
1340-1400 British Poet
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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Christie, Agatha
1891-1976 British Mystery Writer
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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Cioran, E. M.
1911 Rumanian-born French Philosopher
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
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Coudert, Jo
American Author
Make good habits and they will make you.
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Cousins, Parks
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I ve done it from my youth.
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Crabbe, George
1754-1832 British Clergyman Poet
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.
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Dostoevski, Fyodor
1821-1881 Russian Novelist
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
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.
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Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
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Emmons, Nathaniel
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
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Eng's Principle
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Erasmus, Desiderius
c1466-1536 Dutch Humanist
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
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Evenus
Ancient Greek Poet
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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Flynn, Errol
1909-1959 Tasmanian Actor
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
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.
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Getty, J. Paul
1892-1976 American Oil Tycoon Billionaire
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they ll eventually conquer you.
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Gilbert, Dr. Rob
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...
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Giraudoux, Jean
1882-1944 French Diplomat Author
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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Givens, Charles J.
American Businessman Author Trainer
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
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Harris, James
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Habit is a form of exercise
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
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Hubbard, Kin
1868-1930 American Humorist Journalist
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.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
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.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Habit with it s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Lamartine, Alphonse De
1790-1869 French Poet Statesman Historian
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Lombardi, Vince
1913-1970 American Football Coach
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
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Maltz, Maxwell
American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
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.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
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Martin, Mary
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874-1965 British Novelist Playwright
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
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Mccarver, Tim
Habit is second nature.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
Habits change into character.
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Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
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.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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Proust, Marcel
1871-1922 French Novelist
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
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.
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Rusk, Tom
Habit is stronger than reason.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
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.
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Scheele, Paul R.
American NLP Expert and Human Potential Author
How use doth breed a habit in man!
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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Sigourney, Lydia
1791-1865 American Poet
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.
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Sockman, Ralph W.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Stevenson, Adlai E.
1900-1965 American Lawyer Politician
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Taylor, Jeremy
1613-1667 British Churchman Writer
Successful people are simply those with success habits.
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Tracy, Brian
American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
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Troward, Thomas
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I ve done it a thousand times.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Unamuno, Miguel De
1864-1936 Spanish Philosophical Writer
Break a bad habit -- drop it
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Unknown, Source
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
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Unknown, Source
Practice in time becomes second nature.
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Unknown, Source
Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.
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Unknown, Source
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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Unknown, Source
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
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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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Unknown, Source
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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Unknown, Source
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Virgil
c 70 - 19 BC Roman Poet
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
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Whately, Richard
1787-1863 British Prelate Writer
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.
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Whitehead, Alfred North
1861-1947 British Mathematician Philosopher
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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Woolf, Virginia
1882-1941 British Novelist Essayist