Habit is stronger than reason.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Character is long-standing habit.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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.
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.