Habits Quotes and Sayings

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. – Orison Swett Marden

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

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? – Barbra Streisand

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

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life. – Wayne Dyer

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. – Henri de Lubac.

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

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

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

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. – Spanish Proverb

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. – Tim Mccarver

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Frank Outlaw

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

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

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. – Norman Vincent Peale

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.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. – Arthur Koestler

Old habits are strong and jealous – Dorothea Brande

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. – Blaise Pascal

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

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. – Maria De Beausacq

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

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

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. – Errol Flynn

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.

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


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