Quotes about Habit
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.
— Mark Lowry
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