Love Quotes and Sayings

Some habit quotes, because good habits are hard to cultivate and bad habits are hard to repel and resist.

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

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
~ Shaquille ONea

“Habit is stronger than reason”
~George Santayana

Sooner it goes the better because “Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ”
~Yiddish Proverb

And also because it tends to stick harder with time, which is why it is calle habit..
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
~St. Augustine

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
~Thomas Paine

“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit”
~ Epictetus

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
~ Charles C. Noble

“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

And on a positive note:
“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
~ Robert Puller

“Character is long-standing habit.”
~ Plutarch

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ”
~Spanish Proverb

“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
~ Henri de Lubac

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

“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves”
~ Horace Bushnell

“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ”
~Mignon McLaughlin

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