Habit Quotes


Habit quotes invite us to look at the habits in our life. A habit is an action or pattern you repeat over and over. Are you in love with your habits? If not, change them. You are the only one in charge of your choices. Use that power to create habits that move you in the direction of your happiest dreams. If an action you take daily does not bring you long term joy or move you closer to your goals, stop it. Just for today start a new habit. Just for today make new choices that support long term joy. Just for today live as if today was a new beginning, because, of course, it is. You can do it! For one-on-one coaching on positive habit cultivation call on Marta@JoyofQuotes.com.



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

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

Plant a thought, reap an act. Plant an act, reap a habit. Plant a habit, reap a character. Plant a character, reap a destiny.
Confucius

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins

It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes a difference.
Jenny Craig

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

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

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

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
Kahlil Gibran

Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
Arthur Koestler

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

Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you’ll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly – but painlessly! – you’ll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert Maurer

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

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

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success, instead of eluding him, flows toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
Robert Puller

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts.
John Wooden



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