habit development Quotes

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

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

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

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.