1. Habits We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden --Henri Fredric Amiel

2. Habits Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun Olympic medalist and politician

3. Habits To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. anon

4. Habits Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. -- Harvey Mackay

5. Habits Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale

6. Habits Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch, Greek biographer (47-120 A.D.)

7. Habits/Character Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. --HORACE GREELEY (1811-1872), New York newspaper editor

8. Habits Good habits form the basis of a healthy and productive life. In short, we are what we continuously do. inyouremail.com

9. Habits We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act; it is a habit. Aristotle

10. Habits The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -- Samuel Johnson

11. Habits It is a matter of no little importance what sort of habits we form from the earliest age - it makes a vast difference, or rather all the difference in the world. Aristotle

12. Habits The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist

13. Habits Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain (1835-1910)

14. Habits The nature of man is always the same; it is their habits that separate them Confucius

15. Habit The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts — Blaise Pascal

16. Habit Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch

17. Habits The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. Stephen Biko (1946–1977), South African political leader. Interview, July 1976.

18. Habits Education is the formation of habits. Thomas Huxley

19. Habits The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character, sow a character, and you reap a destiny. G. D. Boardman.

20. Habits Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes. Henry David Thoreau

21. Habits Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. Henry Hancock, Dean, St Mark’s Cathedral, Minneapolis MN

22. Habits In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded life in the difference of their habits. Og Mandino

23. Habits We first make our habits and then our habits make us. John Dryden

24. Habits Habits are the key to all success. Hal Urban

25. Habits The kind of life we want depends on the kind of people we are – on our character. Robert Bellah, “Habits of the Heart”

26. Habits Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful—the formation of fixed habits of work. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911), U.S. novelist

27. Habits Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. Samuel Smiles

28. Habits Who am I? I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command.... Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

29. Habits The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted. -- Henry Giles

30. Habits Habit is the most imperious of all masters. - - Goethe.

31. Habits Good thinking produced more good thinking if...you make it a habit. John Maxwell

32. Habits Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch

33. Habits Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test. Rick Warren

34. Habits Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. --George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"

35. Habits Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. --Elmer G. Letterman

36. Habits You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. --James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

37. Habits People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

38. Habits Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain

39. Habits Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. -- Harvey Mackay

40. Habits Like the weeds in the garden, bad habits can take over your life. Make a decision today to pull those weeds. Mac Anderson