Habits Quotes

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumbMay look wrinkled and wetAnd withered, and white as the snow,But the taste of a thumbIs the sweetest taste yet(As only we thumb-sucker's know).

Shel Silverstein

Habit is ten times nature.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

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

John Dryden

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

Horace Mann

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

Richard Whately

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.

J. Paul Getty

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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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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Practice in time becomes second nature.

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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

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Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

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

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Break a bad habit -- drop it

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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.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

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

Samuel Johnson

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

Tim Mccarver

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

W. Somerset Maugham