Top 100 Habit Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”

— Mike Murdock

52. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

— Bruce Lee

53. “Start before you’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

54. “The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.”

— Steve Pavlina

55. “Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you.”

— Unknown

56. “Keep working even when no one is watching.”

— Alex Morgan

57. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”

— Stephen R. Covey

58. “If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”

— Og Mandino

59. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

— Zig Ziglar

60. “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”

— F. Matthias Alexander

61. “Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.”

— Robin S. Sharma

62. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

63. “Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late and you work hard; those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway; that is actually the dream. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

— Kobe Bryant

64. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.”

— Zig Ziglar

65. “You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

66. “It takes 21 days to develop a habit.”

— Maxwell Maltz

67. “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”

— Richard G. Scott

68. “Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you’re bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.”

— S. N. Goenka

69. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

— Ralph Marston

70. “Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

71. “We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.”

— Stephen R. Covey

72. “Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.”

— Denis Waitley

73. “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

74. “Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

75. “Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.”

— John C. Maxwell

76. “If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.”

— Lecrae

77. “In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.”

— Og Mandino

78. “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

79. “Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.”

— Saint Augustine

80. “To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.”

— Maxwell Maltz

81. “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”

— Kent Beck

82. “I will form good habits and become their slaves.”

— Og Mandino

83. “A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”

— Mark Twain

84. “Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

85. “We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

86. “But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”

— Veronica Roth

87. “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”

— William Wordsworth

88. “Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.”

— Thomas Paine

89. “Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”

— William James

90. “Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”

— Hippocrates

91. “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

92. “The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”

— Abigail Adams

93. “Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.”

— Oswald Chambers

94. “The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.”

— Honoré de Balzac

95. “Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”

— Bertrand Russell

96. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn

97. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Aristotle

98. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

99. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

— Jim Rohn

100. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier