Quotes about Habit
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
- George Washington
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
- Thomas Jefferson
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.
- Zig Ziglar
It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.
- Charles Swindoll
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
- Aristotle
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Mark Twain
A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
- Will Rogers
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
- William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work
- William James