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Habit

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.--Henry David Thoreau
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.--Henry van Dyke
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.--Paul Myer (in Developing the Leader Within You by Maxwell)
Break the anger habit. It is a waste of valuable energy to rail against adverse events. Stuff happens. Get over it and move on.--Sibyl McLendon ("Do You Have a Solid Foundation?" in The Power to Endure)
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.--Henry Brooks Adams
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.--George Lois
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.--Elbert Hubbard
An elephant can be tethered by a thread--if he believes he is captive. If we believe we are chained by habit or anxiety, we are in bondage.--John H. Crowe
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.--Rob Gilbert
Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.--William James
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.--Henri de Lubac
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.--Horace Mann
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.--Nathaniel Emmons
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.--Mark Twain (The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson)
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.--Edith Wharton (A Backward Glance)
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.--Evenus (Ancient Greek Poet)
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.--Anthony Trollope
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.--Frank Crane
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.--Juliene Berk
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.--Montaigne ("Of Custom" Essays)
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...--Charles Dickens
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others, is--"I will form good habits and become their slaves."--Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the World)
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.--Kenich Ohmae
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!--Merril Markoe
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.--Jenny Craig
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. --Thomas Paine
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.--Richard Whately
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
Motivation gets you going and habit get you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get thee more quickly and have more fun on the trip.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.--Jim Ryun
Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits.--Mark Twain
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.--Winston Churchill
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.--Ellen Glasgow
The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.--Wess Roberts
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.--Stephen R. Covey
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.--Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny.--George D. Boardman
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
Things start as hopes and end up as habits.--Lillian Hellman (Days to Come)
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.--Tryon Edwards
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.--Henri Frederic Amiel
To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy … we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.--William James (The Principles of Psychology)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.--Aristotle
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.--John Dryden
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.--Stephen Covey
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.--Vince Lombardi