Quotes on Habits

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Author: Jose Bergamin

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Author: Matt Blunt

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Author: Dorothea Brande

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

Author: Charles Browne

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

Author: Charles Browne

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Author: Jean Bruyere

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Author: Stuart Chase

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Author: Mason Cooley

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Author: Frank Crane

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Author: Charles Darwin

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Author: Josh Duhamel

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Author: Albert Einstein

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Author: David Elliott

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Author: Evan Esar

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Author: Errol Flynn

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Author: Fred Frith

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Author: Edward Gibbon

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Author: Jerome Hines

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Author: Holbrook Jackson

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

Author: Charles Jaffe

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Author: Mick Jagger

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Author: William James

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

Author: Tahar Jelloun

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Author: Shirley Jones

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Author: Al Kaline

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Author: Merrill Markoe

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Author: W. Maugham

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Author: Antoine Rivarol

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Author: Frederick Robertson

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Author: Saint Teresa

Success is the gradual creation of purposeful habits that align with your deepest desires.

Author: Amanda Johnson

The seed of your success is planted in your daily habits.

Author: Alicia Rodriguez

Success is born out of consistent actions, not grand intentions.

Author: Caroline Greene

Good habits are the foundation of success.

Author: Elizabeth Martin

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Author: Stephen Covey

The secret to success is consistency, not perfection.

Author: Sofia Hartman

Success is not a destination, but a series of consistent actions along the journey

Author: Samantha Jones

Dream big, work hard, stay focused; success is largely determined by our habits.

Author: Sophia Brown

Success is made up of small habits repeated daily

Author: Sarah Parker

Success is not a one-time achievement, it's a habit continuously cultivated.

Author: Samantha Johnson

Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going.

Author: Jim Rohn

Success is the sum of small actions repeated daily.

Author: Victoria Green

Success is found in the small daily habits that compound over time, not in occasional bursts of inspiration.

Author: Samantha McNeil

Successful people develop habits that lead to success, while others just wish for it.

Author: Brian Tracy