Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Habit

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman

Bad habits are as infectious by example as the plague itself is by contact.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that your ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) American Physicist

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens (1941–98) American Self-Help Writer

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
George Boardman the Younger (1801–31) American Baptist Minister

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor

When we have practised good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
John Tillotson

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Spanish Proverb

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Common Proverb

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher

The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) American Novelist

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren’t important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II…Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that?’
Jay Leno (b.1950) American Comedian, TV Personality

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) Spanish Educator, Philosopher, Author

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
Robert Ringer (b.1979) American Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Author

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Chinese Proverb

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