“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
– George Washington Carver
“We are all slaves of our habits.” We have all read it several times since childhood and to some extent, even used it as an excuse to cling to our bad habits. Breaking bad habits is tough but not impossible. With the right kind of commitment and inspiration, you can find a way to win over your habits and develop good ones.
Your daily habits will either help you to achieve your goal or become an obstacle in your life. So, if you want to overcome your bad habits, and seeking some inspiration, then you are in the right place. We selected various categories of habit quotes by famous people and brilliant minds. Hope you find success on your path to greatness.
Top Habit Quotes
“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
– John Irving
“Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.”
– Twyla Tharp
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”– Gandhi
“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
– Stephen King
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
– Charles Dickens
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
– Mark Twain
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
– Albert Einstein
Breaking Bad Habits Quotes/Changing Habits Quotes
“There are no shortcuts for nurturing the movement toward wholeness other than drinking from the well of self-love.”
– Don Stapleton
“Saying NO to the wrong things creates space to say YES to the right things.”
– Mack Story
“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life.”
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits…will change your future.”
– Dr. Abdul Kalam
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Rohn
“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”
– Spanish Proverb
“Losing will not always amount to a loss; sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”
– Gift Gugu Mona
Creature of Habit Quotes
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Will Durant
“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”
– G. Stanley Hall
“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
– Arundhati Roy (God of Small Things)
“Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was. But if you continue the way it was there will be no is.”
– Robin Williams
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Aristotle Quotes on Habits
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
– Aristotle
“Quality is not an act; it is a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
– Aristotle
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
– Aristotle
Funny Habit Quotes
“Laziness is the mother of all bad habits. But ultimately she is a mother, and we should respect her.”
– Unknown
“If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
“Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality.”
– Oscar Wilde
