Sayings about Habit
Habit causes love. ~ Latin Proverbs
Everything is formed by habit, even praying. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do. ~ Filipino Proverbs
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Wherever you go, habit follows. ~ Filipino Proverb
Habit is the intelligence of the crowd. ~ German Proverbs
When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby. ~ Jewish Proverbs
There has to be a first time for everything — even our most natural habits. ~ Arabian Proverb
Old habits die hard. ~ Traditional Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ~ Traditional Proverb
A good name is better than good habits. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Character is habit long continued. ~ Greek Proverbs
Habit is a shirt that we wear till death. ~ Russian Proverbs
Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Blushing is the paint of good habits. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Good habits result from resisting temptation. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Habits
A habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.~ read full Wikipedia Article
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. ~ Richard Whately
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do. ~ Author Unknown
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best. ~ Marva Collins
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. ~ Phyllis Schlafly
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. ~ Peter Ustinov
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~ Mary Martin
Giving is a habit of the heart. It is not a tax deduction. ~ Ernie Wood
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. ~ Napoleon Hill
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. ~ Dale Carnegie
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ Saint Teresa
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryun
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. ~ Napoleon Hill
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~ St. Augustine
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work. ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton
Your habits will determine your quality of life. ~ Denis Waitley
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~ Mortimer Caplan
Develop the habit of changing your habits. ~ Author Unknown
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ~ Nathaniel Emmon
A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom. ~ Joseph E. Rogers
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~ Horace Mann
Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! And I will!! ~ Unknown
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. ~ Donald Riggs
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ~ Miguel De Unamuno
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ~ Eric Hoffer
Cigarettes are not a part of human behavior, they are a habit. ~ Joe Eszterhas
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. ~ Twyla Tharp
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. ~ Maxwell Maltz
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ~ Herbert Kaufman
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffett
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. ~ Fulke Greville
Habit is a form of exercise. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Character is simply habit long continued. ~ Plutarch
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. ~ Andre Maurois
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models. ~ Jack Canfield
Make good habits and they will make you. ~ Parks Cousins
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~ Leo Aikman
Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. ~ Mark Twain
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ~ Hippocrates
Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work. ~ Clarence Darrow
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. ~ Brian Tracy
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ~ Ed Foreman
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you. ~ Dr. Rob Gilbert
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. ~ Napoleon Hill
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. ~ Ben Hecht
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
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. ~ Horace Bushnell
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Bad habits are overcome by good habits. ~ Lucas Remmerswaal
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. ~ Tim McCarver
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. ~ Andre Maurois
The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Never permit failure to become a habit. ~ William Frederick Book
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming you “don’t have the time”. ~ Bo Bennett
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
The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. ~ Samuel Johnson
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. ~ Author Unknown
The reforming process involves the removal in daily living of bad conduct and bad habits and the practice of good conduct and good deeds. ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ~ George Washington Carver
Quality is not an act. It is a habit. ~ Aristotle
Habit is overcome by habit. ~ Thomas a Kempis
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ~ John Dryden
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness. ~ Theodosia Garrison
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ~ Charles J. Givens
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. ~ Jerome Hines
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. ~ Blaise Pascal
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine. ~ George Moore
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ~ Kin Hubbard
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~ Jules Renard
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with. ~ Orrin Woodward
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. ~ Ovid
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ~ William Somerset Maugham