Habits Quotes - Quotes about Habits

"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

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

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."