Habits Quotes

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

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

All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he afailure, and then fail all the more completely because hedrinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to theEnglish language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate becauseour thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our languagemakes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I work as my father drank.

When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

We’ve all heard the expression, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Well, I’ve got a good question for you: What if it’s true? Wouldn’t that be easy to do-to eat an apple a day? Here’s the problem: It’s also easy not to do.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

I never eat before breakfast.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

The last year I was playing, I asked the stick boy to get me a Diet Coke and he said, "Really?" But I always had one on the bench because that's what I did in 1979 when there wasn't Gatorade. If you needed energy you went and got a Snickers or a Kit Kat. Nobody knew any better.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.