Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

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.

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

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

There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I've looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we're going to run a 5K.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Character is long-standing habit.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

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

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

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

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.