Habit Quotes
59 quotations about Habit
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Habit is ten times nature.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit is a great deadener.
Habit is a shackle for the free.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Make good habits and they will make you.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Authors on Habit
Aristotle
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
St. Augustine
Samuel Beckett
Ambrose Bierce
William Frederick Book
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Horace Bushnell
Chinese Proverb
Agatha Christie
Marcus T. Cicero
E. M. Cioran
Parks Cousins
George Crabbe
John Dryden
Nathaniel Emmons
Eng's Principle
Desiderius Erasmus
Evenus
Errol Flynn