Habit Quotes.

Collection of famous habit quotes.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us. - Earl Nightingale

All habit patterns are locked in by patterns of feeling. - Hale Dwoskin

A habit is a frozen interpretation from the past that is applied to the present. - Deepak Chopra

If you've been trying unsuccessfully to change a habit, understand that there is usually one hidden advantage or liking for that particular behavior just below your conscious awareness. - Hale Dwoskin

When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit. - Zig Ziglar

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day. - Zig Ziglar

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives. - Denis Waitley

Habits are like submarines. They run silent and deep. - Denis Waitley

First we make our habits, then our habits make us. - Denis Waitley

Winning and losing are both learned habits. - Denis Waitley

Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters. - Emmons

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. - H. W. Shaw

When we have practiced good actions awhile they become easy; when they are easy we take pleasure in them; when they please us we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act they grow into habit. - Tilloyson

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - William Wordsworth

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

Something must die in order to grow - your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life - must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow. - Doug Firebaugh

99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

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

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. - William James.

Old habits die hard. - Proverb

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. - William James.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. - Chinese Proverb

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - St Augustine

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin

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

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. - Frank A. Clark

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - Somerset Maugham

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Feodor Dostoevski

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature. - William James.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters. - Goethe.

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 will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted. - Henry Giles

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.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. - George Lois.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. - Rob Gilbert.

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 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.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued that at last becomes man himself. - Evenus.

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.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment. - Montaigne.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. - Tryon Edwards.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. - Vince Lombardi

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. - Henry Adams.

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

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. - Arthur Koestler.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington.

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it. - Elbert Hubbard.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. - W. R. Inge

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. - Bertrand Russell

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. - Sydney Smith

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Mortimer Caplan

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. - Frank Clark

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. - Tryon Edwards

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become characters. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Author Unknown

Curious things - habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie

Good habits result from resisting temptation. - Ancient Proverb

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

Nothing is stronger than habit. - Ovid

Habit is stronger than reason - George Santayana

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good - Benjamin Franklin

Habits are the shorthand of behavior - Julie Henderson

Old habits are strong and jealous - Dorothea Brande

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken - Samuel Johnson

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you - Elbert Hubbard

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit - Syrus

Habit is overcome by habit - Joseph Kaines

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. - Yiddish Proverb

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. - Confucius

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. - Goethe

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