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