Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Habits Quotes

Explore motivational and reflective sayings about daily routines, discipline, and small actions that compound over time. These curated quotes highlight how consistent choices shape character, fuel personal growth, and sustain momentum when motivation fades. Use them for a morning reset, goal planning, or mindful check-ins. Whether you are building a new routine or refining old ones, find concise reminders to start small, track progress, and stay patient. Let these perspectives encourage steady practice and make healthy behaviors easier to repeat.

Similar topics:Confidence Learning from Mistakes Self-Discipline Self-Improvement Self-Love

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

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"Constant repetition carries conviction"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"Habit is the nursery of errors"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"I was a smoker for about 20 years"

Selma Blair, Actress

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny"

Charles Reade, Novelist

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

Vince Lombardi

"Character is simply habit long continued"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"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, Psychologist

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

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

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"We become what we do"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine"

George Gurdjieff, Philosopher

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Habit is a great deadener"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

Page 1 of 6