Habit Quotes

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.