A Quote by Mark Twain

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

Mark Twain

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Mark Twain

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Louis Kronenberger

The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

Forest Whitaker

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

Joe Girard

When you buy a new pair of heels, walk up and down the stairs 10 times. Stairs are the most difficult thing, so if you can do stairs, then you can do everything else.

Giuseppe Zanotti

I think it's very sad, when you look at Barack Obama, as an example, lands Air Force One in China, and they don't want to put out stairs to get off the plane. And he has to use the stairs that mechanics use to get up and down to fix the plane. They wouldn't give him stairs.

Donald Trump

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

Pearl S. Buck

They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.

Laini Taylor

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Vance Havner

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.