Daily Habits Quotes

• Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Two, Soul

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.259, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Apr 16, 2016

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

  Randy Gage

  Habit, Your Future, Our Future

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Birthday, Character

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• All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

  William James

  Habit, Form, Mass

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.56, Nuvision Pubns

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Freedom, Recovery, Catholic

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

  Marva Collins

  Motivational Sports, Business, Excellence

  Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.114, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Dignity, Crime

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Overcoming, Nails

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Doors, Practice

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• Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

  Dan Millman

  Exercise, Law, Body

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.65, New World Library

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• Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Goal, Proud

  "Crash diets and good habits". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2012.

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