Top 100 Good Habit Quotes
#1. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.
Gretchen Rubin
#3. For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#4. Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit
Gretchen Rubin
#6. My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet
#7. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Daniel C. Dennett
#8. Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato
#9. Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.
Joyce Meyer
#10. Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.
Robert Benchley
#11. A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
Aristotle.
#12. It is a good habit to thank always the bridge which takes you to the other side or to mention the name of the bridge or to take the photo of it or to repair it if you can! In short, do something good for those who do goodness for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
Peter Kreeft
#14. It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Charlie Munger
#15. When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn't just join a local church because it's a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it's the expression of what Christ has made him - a member of the body of Christ.
Mark Dever
#16. See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
John Webster
#17. Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.
Jim Gaffigan
#18. It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.
Evelyn E. Smith
#19. Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there
this is a good habit, regardless ... make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.
Sarah Wendell
#20. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#21. Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
Victoria Moran
#22. You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger."
"I have always considered that a good habit
Scott Westerfeld
#23. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.
Denene Millner
#24. A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas Merrill
#25. Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#26. I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don't read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.
Shahid Kapoor
#27. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
Alison Lurie
#28. His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
Charles Dickens
#29. I might have asked, figured her out, led her to open up. I was good at that. But I didn't inquire, a punishment. I didn't let anger go, habit from the dangerous family I'd left behind, from being leery of women. I was good at that, too, the guarded disappointment.
Susanna Sonnenberg
#30. There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.
Alan Hunter
#31. Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
#32. A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
Peter Kreeft
#33. Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
Jane Smiley
#34. When you want to quit a 'bad habit, think about what 'good' it's doing in your life.
Trishna Damodar
#35. There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
Stephen R. Covey
#36. You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person" ... Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.
Joe J. Christensen
#37. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#39. Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.
Garrison Keillor
#40. He looked at the menu dreamily. 'God, it's good to be eating in France again.'
'It's good to be eating again,' said Brenda.
'But it's nice to resume the habit in France.'
'That's true of so many habits.
Jack Iams
#41. If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
Nevil Shute
#42. He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
Hilary Mantel
#43. When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
John Tillotson
#44. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.
Garth Ennis
#45. Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.
Chanakya
#46. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#47. We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
Sakyong Mipham
#48. Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
Rebecca West
#49. I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.
Gwenno
#50. Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
Lee Trevino
#51. Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.
Agatha Christie
#52. As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy ... I really tortured myself.
Mira Sorvino
#53. I will form good habits and become their slaves.
Og Mandino
#54. Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.
Roger Scruton
#55. She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
A.A. Milne
#56. Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.
Opportunity just knocked,
Let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.
Jim Henson
#57. For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
Steve Pavlina
#58. Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.
Malti Bhojwani
#59. Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't even let the good be the enemy of the just barely okay.
Daria Sockey
#60. Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
Jonathan Maberry
#61. One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes
#62. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle.
#63. Worry is a habit. Even if what you worry about comes true - good or bad - there will always be something else to worry about ... Break the habit!
Charles F. Glassman
#64. Fayez was a good scientist and a friend, but his habit of making fun of everything and derailing anything serious for the sake of humor also made him less useful than he should have been.
James S.A. Corey
#65. When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. Laurel, I hope you find something like this, a little self-destructive habit you can turn to every once in a while, when you're tired of being good. It will keep you sane.
Jennifer Castle
#67. The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.
Woody Allen
#68. A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick
Scott Adams
#70. Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
Tim McCarver
#71. Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.
Mao Tse-tung
#72. The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
Will Rogers
#73. Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
Eric Thomas
#74. It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#75. Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
Joseph Grew
#76. The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.
Thomas Paine
#78. Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
Debbie Macomber
#79. I'm good at being vague and unpredictable. It's sort of a hard habit to break.
Elle Lothlorien
#80. A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.
John Dewey
#81. But the problem isn't actually that we are sleeping more or worrying about others - these things are necessary and good at times. The problem is that we have a habit, day after day, of not growing - of not reaching the divine potential that we have as a sons and daughters of God. The
Mark Bacera
#82. Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'"
A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed.
"They spook easy," Hobbs said.
Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, "Good God." It's just a habit, I guess.
David Sedaris
#83. I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
#84. The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
Denis Waitley
#85. There's really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#86. Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Jean De La Bruyere
#87. I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
H.L. Mencken
#88. She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.
Marcel Proust
#89. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit of it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#90. A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg
Elmer Kelton
#91. The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.
Mel Gibson
#92. That was a very formidable woman," Caisa said.
"I seem to know a good many of those."
"And you have a terrible habit of angering them," she said.
Kameron Hurley
#94. Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.
Charles Stanley
#95. One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Baltasar Gracian
#96. A true friend has a habit of talking behind your back good things about you.
Tareq Ragheb
#97. Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
#99. One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil.
Graham Greene
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