Just as negative addictions sneak up on us a day at a time, so do positive cravings. Meditation, creative movement, moments of self-nurturance that bring contentment -- all can become positive habits of well-being.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: habit choice self-improvement

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: rut routine unconscious habit

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: habit character self-control

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work preparation habit

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body...We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's feature, any meaness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau Light from Many Lamps
Categories: wellness diet character habit

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: moderation success virtue habit

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: happiness attitude habit joy life

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph P. Thompson Franklin Day Planner, July 9, 1993
Categories: self-control will habit success achievement attainment

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-control habit change growth self-improvement

An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: learning change growth self-improvement habit

Nothing in excess.
Greek proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: moderation diet health wellness habit

Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain Franklin Seasons DayPlanner, October 20, 1993
Categories: habit rut character change growth self-improvement

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: routine foundation life support habit

In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart and a spiritual discipline.
Daphne Rose Kingma A Grateful Heart
Categories: gratitude attitude habit relationships manners

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: hope faith habit happiness joy attitude

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: actions words speech example model habit

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: excellence habit education virtue action

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: quality actions habit vision mission

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: planning focus priorities habit mistakes success

...changing your mind is easy; changing your heart is hard.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: change opinion bias beliefs self-improvement habit

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue.
Horace Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: vice habit virtue goodness success self-control

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: habit consideration kindness attitude happiness courtesy

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle Words for All Occasions
Categories: habit character actions change personality identity

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Horace The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: fault mistake habit character growth change compensation

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: circumstances habit mood temper attitude self-control success