Habits Quotes
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Good habits are worth being fanatical about. (Quote by - John Irving)
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. (Quote by - Frank Crane)
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. (Quote by - Somerset Maugham)
A civil habit Oft covers a good man. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. (Quote by - Mary Martin)
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. (Quote by - Georges Gurdjieff)
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong. (Quote by - Isaac Williams)
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. (Quote by - Ovid)
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. (Quote by - Jim Ryun)
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
Habit had made the custom. (Quote by - Ovid)
Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. (Quote by - Warren Buffet)
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. (Quote by - Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
Old habits are strong and jealous. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
Habit is stronger than nature. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel 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. (Quote by - William James)
Good habits result from resisting temptation. (Quote by - Ancient Proverb)
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. (Quote by - Goethe)
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. (Quote by - Nathaniel Emmons)
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. (Quote by - Terence)
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Habits form character and character is destiny. (Quote by - Joseph Kaines)
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Sow an action, reap a habit. (Quote by - Hannah More)
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. (Quote by - Feodor Dostoyevsky)
Habit is stronger than reasona. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. (Quote by - Henri de Lubac)
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Pursuits become habits. (Quote by - Ovid)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Quote by - Herbert Kaufman)
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. (Quote by - Dr. Rob Gilbert)
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. (Quote by - Syrus)
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. (Quote by - Errol Flynn)
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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... (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. (Quote by - Leo Aikman)
The fox changes his skin but not his habits. (Quote by - Caius Tranquillus Suetonius)
How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. (Quote by - Doug Henning)
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. (Quote by - Feodor Dostoevski)
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. (Quote by - George W. Carver)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it movesa. (Quote by - Horace Bushnell)
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habitsa. (Quote by - Robert Puller)
Habit is overcome by habit. (Quote by - Joseph Kaines)
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." (Quote by - George Crabbe)
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. (Quote by - Evenus)
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
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. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. (Quote by - Paxton Hood)
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destinya. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Nothing is stronger than habit. (Quote by - Ovid)
There are two types of habits: ones which comfort us, and ones which would be a comfort if we stopped. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. (Quote by - Shaquille ONeal)
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. (Quote by - Confucius)
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Habits are the shorthand of behavior. (Quote by - Julie Henderson)
We are what we repeatedly do. (Quote by - Aristotle)
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. (Quote by - Terence)
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. (Quote by - Merrill Markoe)
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. (Quote by - Vincent Lombardi)
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature. (Quote by - William James)
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
