Please add your own memorable quotations about habits. For my starters, see the comments.
Inspiring Quotations
A complete guide for students who want to succeed.
Please add your own memorable quotations about habits. For my starters, see the comments.
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. —Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
‘But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon . . . character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing . . .’. —George Eliot, Middlemarch
Johnson observed, that the force of our early habits was so great, that . . . almost every man returned to them. —James Boswell, The Life of Johnson
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. —Mark Twain, American author (1835-1910)
Courage is important. It’s the one virtue that makes all other virtues possible. —Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., American theologian and activist
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
—Horace Mann, American educator (1796-1859)
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
—Basketball coach Bobby Knight
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you.
—Frank Crane (1861–1928) Presbyterian minister
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
—Jim Ryun, long-distance runner
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
—Yiddish Proverb
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
—Spanish Proverb
Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
—Confucius, ‘Analects’
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
—Leo Aikman
Hi Eric: Greetings! I enjoyed very much reading these inspiring quotations! Thank you again for posting my drawings on your website. Very kind.
take care! best wishes, –Merideth