Habits Quotes

Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves

~ Sunday Adelaja

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

~ Marge Piercy

Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

~ Christopher Hitchens

Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Habits grow like dragons if you feed them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

~ Veronica Roth

Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.

~ Farshad Asl

The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not use either harsh words or negative words. They only bring sadness and weaken the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.

~ Amber Hurdle

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

~ Charles Duhigg

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

~ Warren Buffett

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings

~ Danny Dover

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

~ Lucas Remmerswaal

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Positive mindset, positive self-image and positive attitude are the best-habits to nurture.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-love is self-care.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A joyful soul is the choice to dwell on amazing gift of life than the challenges.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.

~ Charles Eisenstein

Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks. Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

~ Brandon Sanderson

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

~ David W. Earle

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

~ David W. Earle

If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. (Not on the shortlist)

~ Erik Pevernagie

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

~ David Amerland

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

~ Criss Jami

You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it’s ignites.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep your heart always warm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Health is the greatest strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita