Habits Quotes

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 we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Dr. Rob Gilbert

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie


A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus


Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank Clark

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

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Spanish Proverb

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

By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden

Nothing is stronger than habit.
Ovid

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Orison Swett Marden


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


Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus T. Cicero

Never permit failure to become a habit.
William Frederick Book

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine