Quotes About Habits

Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters. ~ Emmons

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skiin and stick. ~ H. W. Shaw

Habits are at first cobwebs, and then cobbles. ~ Zig Ziglar

It's also important to make a habit of succeeding, and the easiest way to start is to succeed at something, however small, everyday, gradually increasing the level of your ambitions and achievements like a runner in training. ~ Michael Korda

Habits is a cable; we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it. ~ Horace Mann

The most potent tool you can have in the steady pursuit of success is a written record of your daily habits. Correctly kept, this record will be a mirror of every effort and every action of your day-to-day living. It will, with amazing vitality, enable you to redirect yourself. ~ W. C. Stone
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ~ G. W. Carver

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

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ~ Dryden

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~Samuel Johnson

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain

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

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ~John Dryden

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~Somerset Maugham

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine

Habits of Highly Effective People:

1. Be Proactive. Reactive people are driven by their feelings, by circumstances, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values. Their behaviour is a function of their decisions, not their conditions.

2. Begin with the end in mind. Begin today with the end of your life as your frame of reference for examining everything you do.

3. Put first things first.

4. Think Win/Win. Win/Win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human transactions.

5. Seek first to understand, then be understood.

6. Synergize. The essence of synergy is to build on strength to compensate for weaknesses.

7. Sharpen the saw. It's renewing the four dimensions of your nature -- physical, spiritual, mental and social.