Quotes about Habit

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.