Habits Quotes

"Impatience with actions, patience with results."

"Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge."

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"If you win the morning, you win the day."

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"The only way to be consistent is to have a habit."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing."

"There is only one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment."

"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."

"What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while."

"Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped."

"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."

"The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone."

"If you wish to be a writer, write."

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits."

"Make it so easy you can't say no."

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

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

"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."

"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

"I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write."

"Discipline is the ability to choose what you want most over what you want now."

"If you want to be more disciplined, you have to be more disciplined."