Best Quotes About Habits
I've collected thousands of quotes over the past 10+ years.
Here are the best ones I've found about building habits...
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." -Gustave Flaubert
"Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a process." -Shane Parrish
"Almost every result you get is a lagging measure of the habits that precede them. So, your physical fitness is a lagging measure of your training habits. Your bank account is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your productivity is a lagging measure of your prioritization habits." -James Clear
"Routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard." -Angela Duckworth
"Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)" -Austin Kleon
"We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work." -William James
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"Behaviors that get immediately awarded get repeated, and behaviors that get immediately punished get avoided." -James Clear
"Commit to your habits to make them rituals. If it's not important, never do it. If it's important, do it every day." -Derek Sivers
"Decide what you want or ought to do with the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble." -W.H. Auden
"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." -Jerzy Gregorek
"One of the best rules I've heard as a writer is that the way to write a book is by producing 'two crappy pages a day.'" -Ryan Holiday
"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not." -Octavia Butler
"People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." -F.M. Alexander
"People don't reach their potential on accident. The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas." -John Maxwell
"Protect the process and the results will take care of themselves." -Dan Brown
"The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits." -Steven Pressfield
"The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing." -Kevin Kelly
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
"We don't rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems." -James Clear
"What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline." -H.P. Liddon
"You absolutely need habits to function. You cannot solve every problem in life as if it is the first time it's thrown at you." -Naval Ravikant
"You need ritual, not inspiration. Every day, no matter what, you must practice. Your practice ritual is your highest priority—an unbreakable commitment. Stubbornly protect this time against the demands of the world. Once you get momentum, never stop. It's easy to continue, but if you stop, it's hard to start again. Never miss a day." -Derek Sivers
"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." -Twyla Tharp
"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." -John Maxwell
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” -W. Somerset Maugham
"If you want to predict where you'll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses, and see how your daily choices will compound ten or twenty years down the line. Are you spending less than you earn each month? Are you making it into the gym each week? Are you reading books and learning something new each day? Tiny battles like these are the ones that will define your future self. Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy." -James Clear
