Welcome to the world of habits and inspiration! On this page, we’ve curated a collection of insightful and motivational habit quotes that will encourage you to embrace positive changes and cultivate habits that lead to success. Whether you’re striving for personal growth, looking to boost your productivity, or seeking to improve your overall well-being, these quotes are here to guide and inspire you on your journey.
Habits play a crucial role in shaping our lives, and the wisdom shared in these quotes can serve as your daily dose of motivation. You can use these quotes to kickstart your day with positivity, share them with friends and family to spread the habit-forming inspiration, or even get creative by placing them on images and enhancing them with stylish fonts. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of habit quotes and let them fuel your determination to create lasting and meaningful change in your life.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson
Character is simply habit long continued. Plutarch
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. George Gurdjieff
There’s something very addictive about people pleasing. It’s a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. Anne Hathaway
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine
Peace is not a state – it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It’s possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it’s like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too. Nick Harkaway
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. Edith Wharton
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn’t help myself. Gabe Kapler
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience. Glennon Doyle Melton
I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets, and my interest grew. He put me in a club, seeing this. My habit grew from that point. Babar Azam
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain. Henry David Thoreau
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Saint Augustine
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don’t have time to read. Marilyn vos Savant
I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important. Adam Conover
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Marcel Proust
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle
As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency. Chris Fussell
Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit. Natalie Massenet
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Will Durant
Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such an important habit. Jay Shetty
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. Tacitus
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all – that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open – has disappeared. Federico Fellini
There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. Peng Liyuan
I’ll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup – I know, it’s a horrible habit – and people will steal the cup. Jenna Jameson
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard. Shannon Sharpe
Habit is ten times nature. Duke of Wellington
I’m a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one’s listening. I think it’s just a habit of mindfulness. Geraldine Brooks
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. Drew Barrymore
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Jean Cocteau
Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones. Lee Trevino
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global. David Attenborough
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham
Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation. Shiv Khera
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you. Karen Salmansohn
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. Hippocrates
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Norman Vincent Peale
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Helen Keller
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. James Baldwin
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion. B. R. Ambedkar
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. G. Stanley Hall
The habit of breaking up one’s colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism – Couture advocates it in a little book called ‘Causeries d’Atelier’ written about 1860 – it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. John Singer Sargent
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons. Sara Zarr
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Adams
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May
I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there’s that. Don Rickles
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. Maxwell Maltz
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. Hunter S. Thompson
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits. Margaret Atwood
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun
I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. Norman Foster
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous. George Lois
People are incredible creatures of habit. Sam Altman
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal. Michelle Obama
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. Gary Ryan Blair
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. Rutherford B. Hayes
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. Henry Moore
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. Blaise Pascal
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. Mary Martin
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. Steven Pressfield
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
Fortunately, good posture – like poor posture – is habit forming. Denise Austin
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon Hill
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such ‘imagine if’ questions… we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. Noreena Hertz
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. Mickey Mantle
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living. Thich Nhat Hanh
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. Arthur Conan Doyle
Professors simply can’t discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. Hal Boyle
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. Tom Conti
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort. Mahavira
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Benjamin Franklin
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. Charles Reade
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. Og Mandino
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Brian Tracy
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. Seamus Heaney
I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don’t want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that’s why I always, always try to get a workout in. Jake Paul
There is no influence like the influence of habit. Gilbert Parker