Habit Quotes

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. (David Lloyd George)
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. View quote
Colin Powell
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. View quote
Jules Renard
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. View quote
Hippocrates
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. View quote
André Maurois
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. View quote
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. (Edith Wharton)
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. View quote
Henry Adams
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. View quote
Warren Buffett
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. View quote
Peter Ustinov
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. View quote
Billie Holiday
Habit is a cable we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. View quote
Horace Mann
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. View quote
Thomas Paine
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. View quote
Helen Hayes
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
📖 Habit Proverbs