Habits Quotes

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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.

Mortimer J. Adler

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

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.

Tryon Edwards

Habit is a form of exercise

Elbert Hubbard

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Marcel Proust

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

Horace Bushnell

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

William James

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.

William James

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Anon.

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

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.

Paul R. Scheele

The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.

James Harris

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Brian Tracy

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.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden