Good Habits Quotes

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart may leap with a new inspiration on some mountain-top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain. The workshop of character is every-day life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is won or lost.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

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.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

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

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

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