Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. — Akira Toriyama
Finishing our work is a good habit to develop. It boosts confidence. Despite our insecurities, the more times we can bring ourselves to release our work, the less weight insecurity has. — Rick Rubin
I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. — Akira Toriyama
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. — Mary Lou Retton
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. — Doug Henning
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... — Akira Toriyama
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. — Sarah T. Bolton
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
Good Work Habits Quotes
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned. — Sayings
The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare. — J. Oswald Sanders
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits. — Larry Burkett
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . . — LaVell Edwards
Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work. — Roy Baumeister
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. — Robert Schumann
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. — Al Kaline
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit. — Henry L. Doherty
Work Balance Quotes
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. — Erik Erikson
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. — Alain de Botton
Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality — Giorgio Armani
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing. — Lewis Howes
Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. — Naval Ravikant
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Work crazy hours when you feel like it, but then recharge. — MrBeast
Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. — Muhammad Asad
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office — Harold S. Kushner
What Have I Become Quotes
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain. — Mary Church Terrell
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become. — Barbara Kruger
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did. — Gordon Ramsay
What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. — Akira Toriyama
We can do more than what we think. It’s a belief system that I have adopted and it has become my motto. There is more than meets the eye and unless you are willing to experience new things, you’ll never realize your full potential. — Wim Hof
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities. — Tomochichi
I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality. — Wilma Mankiller
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? — Kathleen Turner
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend? — Trent Reznor
Good Habits Quotes
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
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
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
Stay positive, work had and make it happen.
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
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future. — James Clear
Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent. — James Clear
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action. — James Clear
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you. — Eric Thomas
Daily Habits Quotes
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
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed. — Maxine Greene
Success is the product of daily habits - not once in a lifetime transformation. — James Clear
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. — James Clear
Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire. — James Clear
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily. — Bruce Lee
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
People will go to great lengths to fix their gut health, but often overlook the detrimental impact of their daily mouthwash habit. — Mark Burhenne
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. — Rabindranath Tagore
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life. — Delbert L. Stapley
Habit is the daily battleground of character — Dan Coats
Healthy Habits Quotes
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Transformations don't come from cleanses, eliminations or detox teas. They come from healthy habits. — Will Bulsiewicz
The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Healthy habits are hard to form but easy to live with, whereas unhealthy habits are easy to form but hard to live with. — Eric Berg
Food is not reward... you do not 'earn.' Training should not be punishment. Both should be enjoyable. If not, you have an unhealthy mindset. — Layne Norton
If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life. — Joe Rogan
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating and praying. I adopted this healthy habit many years ago to ensure that my first thoughts of the day were positive. — Doreen Virtue
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice. — Wayne Dyer
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. — Richard Carmona
New Habits Quotes
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
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. — Susan L. Taylor
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. — James Clear
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are. — James Clear
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through. — James Clear
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it. — Akira Toriyama
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. — Louis Aragon
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — A.C. Grayling
To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections. — Rick Rubin
In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that much once I started junior high. — Akira Toriyama
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. — Edwin Paxton Hood
I find that reading is a super important habit. It's one of the best ways to get centered, to find a new tool to play with, or to experiment with a new idea. — Jay Shetty
Sitting. Reading. Thinking. Buffett credits many of his successful decisions to his incredible reading habit. — Gautam Baid
Make It A Habit Quotes
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. — Saladin
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. — Ralph Marston
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks. — Lucy Irvine
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. — Gordon Parks
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation. — Shiv Khera
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. — James Clear
In practice, it doesn't really matter how long it takes for a habit to become automatic. What matters is that you take the actions you need to take to make progress. — James Clear
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing. — James Clear
We need to make our habits attractive because it is the expectation of a rewarding experience that motivates us to act in the first place. — James Clear
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God. — Oswald Chambers
One of the greatest rewards of making art is our ability to share it. Even if there is no audience to receive it, we build the muscle of making something and putting it out into the world. Finishing our work is a good habit to develop. It boosts confidence. Despite our insecurities, the more times we can bring ourselves to release our work, the less weight insecurity has. — Rick Rubin
Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change. — Charles Duhigg
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. — R. A. Torrey
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits — Napoleon Bonaparte
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work. — Jose Raul Capablanca
I try to work to improve myself every day, and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions. — Kylian Mbappe
The way he eats is the way he works. — Polish Proverbs
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects. — Margaret Meagher
Self-care isn’t just holidays and massages. It’s working on your habits, mindset and healing your past. It’s removing toxic thoughts, people and places in your life. It’s living intentionally, purposefully and consciously. — Jay Shetty
Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit — Bruce Lee
People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do). — Ray Dalio
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal. — Newt Gingrich
When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically. — Charles Duhigg
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy. — Hokusai
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. — Alfred Russel Wallace
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes. — Michael Marmot
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. — Jose Saramago
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Charles R. Swindoll
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude — Colin Powell
Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable. — Bill O'Reilly
Success is having consistent work habits. — Peter J. Daniels
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors. — Walter Bagehot
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom. — Alan Rickman
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young? — Saint John Chrysostom
Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard. — Neville Chamberlain
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. — Charles Spurgeon
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