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Habit Proverbs



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