57 Impactful Good Habits Quotes To Keep Yourself On Track

The state and quality of your life can become a direct reflection of the habits that you possess.

Most of us are limited by our them, as they are never easy to change or kick to the kerb once ingrained in your everyday life. This is regardless of whether a habit is specific to your job, family life or health. The difference they can make towards your quality of life are significant enough to take a pause however, and determine which ones you need to pick up and which ones need to go.

Good habits can empower you to achieve and succeed, propelling you forward in life. People with a repertoire of really good habits will find it much easier to reach goals consistently and remain happy and victorious through everyday living.

Bad habits will deter and hold you back and are never easy to quit. The negative behaviour pattern affects you mentally, physically, emotionally and even socially in some cases. While some bad habits are harder to quit than others, it doesn’t change the fact that you need to get rid of them.

Ready to disrupt your bad habits? It takes conscious training and persistence to block those electrical impulses, but it can be done.

These quotes will give you the inspiration you need, to focus on improving your habits so you can keep yourself on track to wherever it is your striving to get to.

1. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Rohn

2. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

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

Aristotle

4. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.

Octavia Butler

5. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Samuel Beckett

6. It takes time and patience, but if you develop the habit of using forceful, positive self-talk rebuttals to your negative mind chatter you will soon see a shift in your mind chatter, how you feel and what you do.

Mark Snyder

7. And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them.

Charles Duhigg

8. It’s not about who you are today, it’s about who you want to become and the price you are willing to pay to get there.

Tom Bilyeu

9. Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Stephen R. Covey

10. Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits.

Robert Puller

11. To unlock and unleash your full potential, you should make a habit of daily goal setting and achieving for the rest of your life.

Brian Tracy

12. Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

13. Humans are imperfect creatures. You don’t ‘succeed’ because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Tim Ferriss

14. Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Brian Tracy

15. I can predict the long-term outcome of your success if you show me your daily habits.

John Maxwell

16. The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Gary Keller

17. A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Stephen King

18. There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs

Zig Ziglar

19. If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.

John Maxwell

20. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

21. Results can only change when we change our consistent actions and make them habits.

Billy Cox

22. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

23. If you want to change your world, you need to start cultivating good habits.

Mina Tadros

24. Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

Malcolm Gladwell

25. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

26. Good habits can be developed through repetition. By incorporating behaviors, task and attitude to the regular routines, they usually become a habit, thus becoming natural and virtually effortless.

Kellie Sullivan

27. The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

28. Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Irving

29. The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Doug Henning

30. Wouldn’t it be great to be gifted? In fact… It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Seth Godin

31. The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something greater than the habit.

Bryant McGill

32. You shouldn’t be challenging yourself to change a habit for just a short period of time. The point of habits is change behavior over the long term.

Richard D. Rawlings

33. Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in day out.

Robert Collier

34. You’ll 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

35. You cannot understand what bad habits are without a good knowledge of what habits are. Habits, whether good or bad are those behaviors and attitudes you exhibit without thinking about them.

Daniel Ferrell

36. Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

37. Good habits are the key to all success.

Og mandino

38. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

39. Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit

Darren Hardy

40. By developing and practising good habits each day, you affirm that you do have control over the very core of your life in the midst of the chaos.

Stephen Guise

41. A habit is therefore something we do without even realizing it, something we sometimes feel we need, and something which is very difficult to stop doing.

Dylan Tettemer

42. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle

43. To change a habit, you must keep the old cue and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

Charles Duhigg

44. Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Lao Tzu

45. ‘Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

46. Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.

William Makepeace Thackeray

47. Replacing just a few key negative habits with a few positive habits can easily be the difference difference between being mostly unhappy and being happy almost all of the time.

Tynan

48. The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Feodor Dostoevski

49. Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Charles Duhigg

50. Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us.  We become what we repeatedly do.

Sean Covey

51. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Tony Robbins

52. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

Thomas Edison

53. If you want to establish a new habit, you must focus on it until it has become a permanent part of your daily routine.

S.J. Scott

54. The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.

Steven Pressfield

55. The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o’clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him rich I merely mean that such a man will in all probability be up early in the morning and do a big day’s work, so his weary bones put him to bed early.

Elbert Hubbard

56. We’ve all heard the expression ‘we are creatures of habit’ and this is perhaps the ultimate truism. Habits are integral to our daily lives and without them we would not be able to function as effectively.

Rob Cristophe

57. Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Elbert Hubbard