Habit Quotes

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.