Habit Quotes

• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Contracts

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• People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  People, Lifestyle

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• Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, Technique, May

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• Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Way, Difficult Times

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• Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

  Michael Grinder

  Giving, Doe

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• Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.

  Nir Eyal

  Nice, Products

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• I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Giving Up, Satisfying, Available

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• Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.

  Al Siebert

  Bridges, Mind, Better Future

  Al Siebert, Mary Karr (2008). “The Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success”

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• Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Giving, Saving

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

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• Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Our Actions, Action, Prisoner

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Change, Decision, Cybernetics

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  Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

  Hippocrates

  Two, Medicine, Helping

  Epidemics bk. 1, ch. 11

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• Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

  Lillian Hellman

  Ends

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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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• Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

  Brian Tracy

  Failing, Easy, Achieve

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.20, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Next, Firsts, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.117

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• There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

  David Starr Jordan

  Pleasure, Vicious, Equal

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Matter, Pressure, Situation

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Positive, Happiness, Success

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