Famous Quotes about Habit (92 Quotations)

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

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

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

Trivial things do matter… more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

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

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

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can…in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.

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