Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
Bad habits are as infectious by example as the plague itself is by contact.
—Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist
The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.
—Wess Roberts
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people…
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) French Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Habit is second nature.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
—Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) American Cartoonist, Humorist
Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.
—Unknown
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) American Novelist
How use doth breed a habit in a man! this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
—Unknown
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.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
—Robert Ringer (b.1938) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
It’s just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren’t instincts; they’re acquired reactions. They don’t just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.
—Unknown
Long customs are not easily broken: He that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do for others, what we are seldom able to do for ourselves?
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
—Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
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 (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may, in the end, prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.
—Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) American Poetaster, Author
Habit is a great deadener.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
—Henry Adams (1838–1918) American Historian, Man of Letters
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