Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. — James Clear
HABITS: Routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard. — Angela Duckworth
Habit is the daily battleground of character — Dan Coats
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer
Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure. — Jeff Olson
Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward. — Lewis Howard Latimer
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly and, in many cases, automatically. — James Clear
Success is determined by your daily choices and habits — Rick Pitino
Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit — Bruce Lee
Good habits result from resisting temptation. — Proverbs
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. — Harvey Mackay
The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals'. — Lewis Howes
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep. — Denis Waitley
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time. — David Lee Roth
You Are My Habit Quotes
I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. — Jake Paul
Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it. — Joaquin Phoenix
Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic. — Brandon Mull
There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.
I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?" — Jennifer Lopez
We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’ — Francis Chan
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food. — Joan Collins
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to. — David Levithan
I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63 — Cassandra Clare
I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are. — Margaret Heffernan
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu
If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. — Colin Powell
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth. — Steven Biko
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson
Habit Quotes
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. — Nick Saban
True love has a habit of coming back.
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. — Haruki Murakami
Habits change into character.
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. — Saladin
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits? — Shel Silverstein
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Habitable Quotes
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. — Leo Tolstoy
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition. — Aristotle
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. — Herman Melville
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. — Herman Melville
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. — Woody Guthrie
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. — Stephen Covey
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw — Stephen Covey
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. — Stephen Covey
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. — Stephen Covey
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen Covey
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic — Stephen Covey
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. — Stephen Covey
Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. — Stephen Covey
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake. — Stephen Covey
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important — Stephen Covey
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. — Stephen Covey
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself. — Stephen Covey
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru. — Stephen Covey
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. — Stephen Covey
Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money — Paul Krugman
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself. — Stephen Covey
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. — Stephen Covey
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. — Stephen Covey
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. — Stephen Covey
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. — Mother Teresa
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. — Aristotle
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit — John Warren Kindt
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all. — Rick Warren
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
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