Habit Quotes
Habit, habit, habit.
What more can I say? Here are 22 quotes that I hope will help you form good habits (and break the bad ones).
1. Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. -Shaquille ONeal
2. First we make our habits, then our habits make us. -Charles C. Noble
3. Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits. -Robert Puller
4. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Rohn
5. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle
6. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. -Aristotle
7. Habit is stronger than reason. -George Santayana
8. Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. -Elbert Hubbard
9. Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. -Benjamin Franklin
10. Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -Aldous Huxley
11. Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. -unknown
12. Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. -Henri de Lubac
13. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -Samuel Johnson
14. Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. -Horace Bushnell
15. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. -Horace Mann
16. 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
17. A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them. -Frank A. Clark
18. The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. -Somerset Maugham
19. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. -St.Augustine
20. The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. -Doug Henning
21. Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. -Spanish Proverb
22. In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. -Mignon McLaughlin
Like any of these?
I really like #9. Please write your thoughts below.
#3 is my favorite. I’ve never looked at habits that way.
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hi friends these quotes are really great, ihope everyone inspire with it
-ALL THE BEST for ur future
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I like quote # 5. Habit is often misconstrued to mean only bad behaviour pattern whereas it could stand for something good too. I perceive that bad habit is imbibed while good habit is acquired.
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I like the balance that the combination of all these quotes brings to the discussion. We can all relate to the difficulties associated with trying to break bad habits, but often forget the real values associated with establishing good ones. #8 then should be considered good advise to us all.
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Oh, one more thought from the peanut gallery. Just breaking bad habits is only half the battle, to truly overcome them, they should be replaced by good ones.
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shawn Reply:
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Good point, David. I find that sometimes…if I try to replace a bad habit just by starting my day in a good way…like with reading, meditation, prayer, exercise, etc….then the rest of the day goes MUCH better; and then those bad habits tend to not show their faces.
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He who thinks and walks above the clouds is wise. He who stands and sinks in the mud is a fool.
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everything is hard at first. So as forming good or breaking bad habits.
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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
I especially liked this one!!! habits at first cajole and romance you but once they are sure they’ve got their claws into you your the one doing all the cajoling and romancing!!! and David is right replace that bad habit with a good one before an even worse habit takes its place!!! habits are sneaky little bastards.
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i like #11!
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Linda D Reply:
October 1st, 2011 at 9:24 pm
I like Quote #8 the best, and agree with what Shawn said. Thumbs up to your thoughts, habits and plans!
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shawn Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Thanks Linda!
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