Good Habits Quotes

• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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• Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pain, Past

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

  Harvey Mackay

  Addiction, Benefits, Rewards

  Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Birthday, Character

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

  John Irving

  Generosity, Habit

  John Irving (1980). “3 by Irving”, Random House Incorporated

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• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Healthy Habits, Deny

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• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Years, Liberty

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• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Habit, Disappear

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Failure, Thinking, Habit

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Freedom, Recovery, Catholic

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Character, Patterns

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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