Good Habits Quotes

• Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

  Harvey Mackay

  Addiction, Benefits, Rewards

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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• Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pain, Past

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Habit, Disappear

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• Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

  John Irving

  Generosity, Habit

  John Irving (1980). “3 by Irving”, Random House Incorporated

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• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Healthy Habits, Deny

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• The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mom, Children, Memories

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Taken, Passion

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• In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Habit, Contagious, Measles

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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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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• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Strength, Giving Up

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

  Og Mandino

  Keys, Doors, Habit

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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• I will form good habits and become their slaves.

  Og Mandino

  Slave, Habit, Form

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.11, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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