Habit Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Nothing, Doubt, Hurts

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

Act, Excellence, Repeatedly

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

Good, Deep, Book

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Art, Training, Rather

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

Life, Find, Others

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

Nature, Human, Passion

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

Yourself, Sorry, Feeling

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.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Winning, Win

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

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

Cannot, Light, Between

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

Help, Two, Harm

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

Long, After, Chance

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Good, Year

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Light, Broken, Until

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

Brave, Become, Moral

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Against

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
Michael Jordan

Shoes, Mine, Labels

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

Learn, Once, Quit

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

Long, Thinking, Wrong

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill

Bad, Tomorrow, Done

I'm very much a creature of habit.
Eminem

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Show, Few, Survive

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love, Act, Endless

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

Excuses, Making, Percent

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Losing

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

Death, Daily, Thinking

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy

Positive, Winners, Event

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill

Start, Service, Stand

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Show, Making, Knows

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

Attitude, Big, Achieve

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