Top 100 Habit Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”

— Abdul Kalam

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2. “Your habits will determine your future.”

— Jack Canfield

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3. “Nothing is stronger than habit.”

— Ovid

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4. “We become what we repeatedly do.”

— Sean Covey

5. “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”

— Brian Tracy

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6. “The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.”

— Denis Waitley

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7. “Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.”

— Joyce Meyer

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8. “Habits change into character.”

— Ovid

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9. “You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you’re striving for, then it’s not an accident. It’s a habit.”

— Greg Plitt

10. “Ancient Rule of 21: if you do anything for 21 days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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11. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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12. “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

13. “Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.”

— James Clear

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14. “You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.”

— Will Smith

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15. “Our lives change when our habits change.”

— Matthew Kelly

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16. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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17. “Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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18. “There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”

— Jim Rohn

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19. “Repetition is the mother of skill.”

— Tony Robbins

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20. “We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.”

— Zig Ziglar

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21. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

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22. “Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

— John C. Maxwell

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23. “Don’t complain; just work harder.”

— Randy Pausch

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24. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

— John C. Maxwell

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25. “To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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26. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.”

— Bruce Lee

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27. “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”

— Jim Rohn

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28. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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29. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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30. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

— Ovid

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31. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.”

— Marie Forleo

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32. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

— Zig Ziglar

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33. “Day by day, what you do is who you become.”

— Heraclitus

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34. “Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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35. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”

— Zig Ziglar

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37. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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38. “Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

39. “Focus on progress not perfection.”

— Bill Phillips

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40. “Don’t Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.”

— Dale Carnegie

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41. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

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42. “Slow progress is better than no progress.”

— Anonymous

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43. “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”

— Buddha

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44. “If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

— Eric Thomas

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45. “The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive. It’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.”

— Casey Neistat

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46. “Today is your day. To start fresh. To eat right. To train hard. To live healthy. To be proud.”

— Bonnie Pfiester

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47. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

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48. “I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we’ll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

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49. “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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50. “Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”

— Og Mandino

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