(654 quotes found)
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
Mark Twain
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
Maya Angelou
“The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.”
Oscar Wilde
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal
“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
Robert Puller
“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
Napoleon Hill