Quotes for Habit

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

Chinese Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Don Marquis

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

Thomas Paine

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Og Mandino

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

Brian Tracy

When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.

Katrina Kaif

Habit is ten times nature.

Duke of Wellington

A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

Shannon Sharpe

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

Stephen Kinzer

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

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

Peter Ustinov

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

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

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero