1. Habit is formed out of memory… We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we’ve done in the past… easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.-Chogyam Trungpa
2. Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.-Phyllis Schlafly
3. To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.-Norman Vincent Peale
4. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.-Kim Stanley
5. These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.-Thorstein Veblen
6. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.-W. Somerset Maugham
7. Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.-Denis Waitley
8. Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.-Ralph Washington Sockman
9. Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life’s easy when you’re a robot.-Alasdair Gray
10. Habit is the most imperious of all masters.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. 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.-Brian Tracy
12. Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.-Norman Vincent Peale
13. Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.-Paramahansa Yogananda
14. The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.-Wess Roberts
15. Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.-Sathya Sai Baba
17. Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.-Marcel Proust
18. Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.-Darren Johnson
19. Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.-William James
20. Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.-Jamaica Kincaid
21. Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.-George Eliot
22. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.-Mark Twain
23. Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.-Horace Bushnell
24. The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.-A.C. Grayling
25. Habits are like the wrinkles on a man’s brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.-Josh Billings
26. Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.-Vince Lombardi
27. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.-Norman Vincent Peale
28. Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they’ve been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.-Rupert Sheldrake
29. Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.-Jeff Olson
30. If you want to change your art, change your habits.-Clement Greenberg