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

And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. -Charles Duhigg

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most. -Abraham Lincoln

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. -Buddha

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

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. -Octavia Butler

Good habits are worth being fanatical about. -John Irving

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. – Aristotle

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). -Stephen R. Covey

Habits change into character. -Ovid

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. -Elbert Hubbard

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. – Tony Robbins

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. -Samuel Beckett

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. -Malcolm Gladwell

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. -Samuel Johnson

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. -Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. -Albert Einstein

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. -Zig Ziglar

Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. – Benjamin Franklin

We are our own potters; for our habits make us, and we make our habits. -Frederick Langbridge

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Will Durant based on Aristotle’s teachings

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 a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -Vince Lombardi

Wouldn’t it be great to be gifted? In fact… It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way. -Seth Godin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. -Benjamin Franklin

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do. ―Sean Covey

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

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ―Stephen Covey

I have learned that champions aren’t just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits. ―Lewis Howes

Good habits are worth being fanatical about. ―John Irving

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life. ―Wayne Dyer

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

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you. ―Frank Hall Crane

 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

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.―Horace Mann

The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it. ―J.C. Penney

If you pick the right small behavior and sequence it right, then you won’t have to motivate yourself to have it grow. It will just happen naturally, like a good seed planted in a good spot. ―BJ Fogg

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ―Samuel Johnson

Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. ―William Makepeace Thackeray

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. ―Aristotle

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.―John C. Maxwell

The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something greater than the habit. ―Bryant McGill

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