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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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

Never permit failure to become a habit.

- William Frederick Book

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

- Horace Bushnell

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

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

- Marcus T Cicero

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

- Jo Coudert

Make good habits and they will make you.

- Parks Cousins

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.

- Fyodor Dostoevski

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

- John Dryden

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 either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

- Nathaniel Emmons

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

- Desiderius Erasmus

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

- Doctor Rob Gilbert

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

- Charles J Givens

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- James Harris

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Habit is a form of exercise

- Elbert Hubbard

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Samuel Johnson

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

- Vince Lombardi

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

- Maxwell Maltz

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

- Horace Mann

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

Habit is second nature.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Habits change into character.

- Ovid

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

- Blaise Pascal

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

- Chinese Proverb

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.

- Tom Rusk

Habit is stronger than reason.

- George Santayana

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

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.

- Lydia Sigourney

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.

- Ralph W Sockman

Laws are never as effective as habits.

- Adlai E Stevenson

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

- Brian Tracy

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

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

- Source Unknown

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

- Richard Whately

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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.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

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

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

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

Make good habits and they will make you.

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.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

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.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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

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

Habit is a form of exercise

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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

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.

Habit is second nature.

Habits change into character.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

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.

Habit is stronger than reason.

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.

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.

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.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

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

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.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

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

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