HABIT

Quote: 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. Author: Mortimer J. Adler 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher

Quote: It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: Habit is ten times nature. Author: Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852, British Statesman, Military Leader

Quote: Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Quote: A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. Author: Hosea Ballou 1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''

Quote: The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. Author: Maria De Beausacq

Quote: Habit is a great deadener. Author: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: 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. Author: Juliene Berk

Quote: Habit is a shackle for the free. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: Never permit failure to become a habit. Author: William Frederick Book

Quote: Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Author: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Quote: Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. Author: Horace Bushnell 1802-1876, American Congregational Minister, Theologian

Quote: Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Quote: 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. Author: Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400, British Poet

Quote: Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. Author: Agatha Christie 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer

Quote: Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

Quote: To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

Quote: The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched. Author: Jo Coudert American Author

Quote: Make good habits and they will make you. Author: Parks Cousins

Quote: Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth. Author: George Crabbe 1754-1832, British Clergyman, Poet

Quote: 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. Author: Fyodor Dostoevski 1821-1881, Russian Novelist

Quote: Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

Quote: We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

Quote: 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. Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian

Quote: Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Author: Nathaniel Emmons

Quote: The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. Author: Eng's Principle

Quote: A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist

Quote: Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. Author: Evenus Ancient Greek Poet

Quote: My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Author: Errol Flynn 1909-1959, Tasmanian Actor

Quote: Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: 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. Author: J. Paul Getty 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire

Quote: First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. Author: Dr. Rob Gilbert

Quote: 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... Author: Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944, French Diplomat, Author

Quote: Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. Author: Charles J. Givens American Businessman, Author, Trainer

Quote: The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. Author: James Harris

Quote: Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

Quote: Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

Quote: Habit is a form of exercise Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

Quote: Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist

Quote: 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. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

Quote: 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. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

Quote: The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

Quote: 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. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

Quote: Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher

Quote: Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Author: Vince Lombardi 1913-1970, American Football Coach

Quote: To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''

Quote: Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator

Quote: If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator

Quote: Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

Quote: 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. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

Quote: Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. Author: Mary Martin

Quote: The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. Author: Tim Mccarver

Quote: Habit is second nature. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

Quote: Habits change into character. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

Quote: 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. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

Quote: Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

Quote: The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist

Quote: Good habits result from resisting temptation. Author: Proverb

Quote: Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: 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. Author: Tom Rusk

Quote: Habit is stronger than reason. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

Quote: 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. Author: Paul R. Scheele American NLP Expert and Human Potential, Author

Quote: How use doth breed a habit in man! Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: 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. Author: Lydia Sigourney 1791-1865, American Poet

Quote: 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. Author: Ralph W. Sockman

Quote: Laws are never as effective as habits. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

Quote: Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

Quote: Successful people are simply those with success habits. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Troward

Quote: A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. Author: Miguel De Unamuno 1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer

Quote: Break a bad habit -- drop it Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Practice in time becomes second nature. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: As a twig is bent the tree inclines. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. Author: Richard Whately 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer

Quote: 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. Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

Quote: Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist