Quotes about Habits

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"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."- Maxwell Maltz

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

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."- George Washington Carver

"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."- Lillian Hellman

"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."- Anne Sullivan Macy

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

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."- Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."- Jim Ryun

"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit."- Laozi

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."- Vince Lombardi

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."- Brian Tracy

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."- Mark Twain

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."- Francis Bacon

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."- Dale Carneige

"We become what we repeatedly do."- Sean Covey

" Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character."- Thomas Chalmers

"The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation."- Bernard Gilpin

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."- Richard Whately

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."- Charles J. Givens

"The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."- Herbert Kaufman

"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."- Mary Martin

"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."- Marcel Proust

"Habit is the second nature which destroys the first."- Blaise Pascal

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."- Publilius Syrus


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