Quotes about habit

"Habit is a form of exercise"

Hubbard, Elbert on habit
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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."

Hubbard, Kin on habit   

"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 on habit   

"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 on habit
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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 on habit   

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

Johnson, Samuel on habit
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"Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on habit   

"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. on habit   

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

Locke, John on habit   

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."

Maltz, Maxwell on habit   

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

Mann, Horace on habit   

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

Mann, Horace on habit   

"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 on habit   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on habit
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"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."

Martin, Mary on habit
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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 on habit   

"Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones."

Mccarver, Tim on habit   

"Habit is second nature."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on habit   

"Habits change into character."

Ovid on habit
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"Habit is the second nature which destroys the first."

Pascal, Blaise on habit   

"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 on habit   

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

Proust, Marcel on habit
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"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

Proverb on habit   

"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."

Proverb, Chinese on habit   

"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 on habit   

"Habit is stronger than reason."

Santayana, George on habit
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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. on habit   

"How use doth breed a habit in man!"

Shakespeare, William on habit   

"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."

Sigourney, Lydia on habit   

"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. on habit   

"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on habit   

"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 on habit   

"Successful people are simply those with success habits."

Tracy, Brian on habit   

"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."

Troward, Thomas on habit   

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

Twain, Mark on habit
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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on habit
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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 on habit
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"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be."

Unamuno, Miguel De on habit   

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"Break a bad habit -- drop it"

Unknown, Source on habit