#Habit Quotes

“To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes”

“Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit”

“Use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

“Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker”

“How use doth breed a habit in a man.”

“Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.”

“To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.”

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.”

“Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!”

“There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.”

“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.”

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.”

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

“We are mere bundles of habits.”

“Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.”

“Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.”

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.”

“It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.”

“All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.”

“We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.”

“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.”

“To change one's life:a. Start immediatelyb. B. Do it flamboyantlyc. No exceptionsNever suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.”

“Habit is the great flywheel of society.”

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

“Habit is the nursery of errors.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.”

“Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”

“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”

“Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.”

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.”

“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.”

“Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.”

“When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.”

“Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.”

“I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”

“How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.”