Quotes About Habit

by joi on December 18, 2006

I tried to whittle this collection down, thinking that having fewer would make more of an impact…but each quote is such a wonderful lesson and each speaker such an amazing and motivational teacher, I just couldn’t take any out.

So, read through the quotes and let each really sink in.  There’s a great deal of wisdom coming your way - as soon as I get out of the way!
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” Benjamin Franklin

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

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

“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
Rob Gilbert

“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” Charles Dickens

“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.” Kenich Ohmae

“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” Tryon Edwards

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”Tyron Edwards

“Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.”Publilius Syrus

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

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