100 Habits Quotes That Will Inspire Lasting Change

Top 10 Quotes – Short – Inspirational – Helpful – Deep – Success – Takeaways – Further Readings

Here are 100 of the best habits quotes.

Read these if you want massive success (of course you do!).

Indeed, habits are literally what make or break your life.

Good habits =

• Better mental health (Source)
• Better physical health (Source)
• Enhanced productivity (Source)
• Stronger self-discipline (Source)
• Increase longevity (Source)

Bad habits =

• More procrastination
• More regrets
• More stress
• Less money

So explore amazing sayings by:

• James Clear
• BJ Fogg
• Bruce Lee
• Vince Lombardi
• Maya Angelou
• Nietzsche
• Mark Manson
• And many more!

And I hope you’ll love them as much as I do.

Enjoy!

Top 10 Habits Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit. Will Durant

The quality of your life depends on the quality of your habits. James Clear

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. F. Matthias Alexander

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

You get what you repeat. James Clear

Build the habits that shape your future, not the ones that entertain your present. James Clear

You become what you repeat. Jordan Peterson

Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what’s left. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)

Small habits are louder than big plans. Greg McKeown

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. Aristotle

Short Habits Quotes

Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid

Quite literally, you become your habits. James Clear

Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you. Eric Thomas

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays: First Series)

You’re the sum of your habits. Chris Donnelly

Ritual is routine infused with mindfulness. It is habit made holy. Kent Nerburn

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Vince Lombardi

Do what the person you want to be would do. Sahil Lavingia

Your habits are the silent architects of your life. Colby Kultgen

Get rid of the habit of being distracted. John D. Rockefeller

Karma isn’t cosmic. It’s your habits catching up. James Clear

‘Motivation‘ is overrated. Habits are underrated. Zuby

The process is more important than the outcome. James Clear

You can’t create a new you with your old habits. Maxime Lagacé

Focus on building habits, not chasing outcomes. James Clear

How could this be as easy as possible? James Clear

Inspirational Habits Quotes

The life you want starts with the habits you repeat when no one’s watching. Lewis Howes

The more we build habits around what really matters, the more the results and benefits of those habits add up. Greg McKeown

The goal is not to lose weight. The goal is to develop habits that make losing weight automatic. Dan Go

When excellence becomes a habit, then that’s just who you are. Kobe Bryant

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. Nick Saban

Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain

One of the healthiest habits to learn: Being grateful for the little things. Yung Pueblo

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh

Sit at a table where they talk about goals, habits, productivity, money, physical health, mental health, nutrition, wisdom, and education. Not people. Maxime Lagacé

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. Joe Paterno

The real reason why habits matter is because learning new habits is the only way go from what your day-to-day life looks like right now to the life you want. Mel Robbins

We all have the capacity to experience joy, but it’s up to us to cultivate it through our thoughts, actions, and habits. Andrew Huberman

Go on more walks. Walk for no reason. Walk to solve a problem. Walk to blow off steam. Walk to get outside. Walk to listen, read, and learn. Walk to escape distractions. Walk to improve your health. Walk to think. A simple walking habit can change absolutely everything. Dan Koe

Clean your room. Organize your life. Get a routine. Get up every day at the same time. Go to bed at the same time. Establish disciplined habits. Jordan Peterson

It doesn’t matter what you do, just do something every day. Exercise is the foundational good habit. Naval Ravikant

Habit formation is the art of becoming someone new. James Clear

If you happen to be sitting, just sit. If you are smoking a pipe, just smoke it. If you are thinking out a problem, just think. But don’t think and reflect unnecessarily, compulsively, from sheer force of nervous habit. In Zen, they call this having a leaky mind. Alan Watts

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you lift weights, you’ll be stronger. If you eat well, you’ll have more energy. If you drop bad habits, you’ll be more powerful. Bryan Johnson (Source)

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors – walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful. Friedrich Nietzsche

1 minute turns into 1 hour. 1 word turns into 1 paragraph. 1 decision turns into 1 lifelong habit. The smallest step is often the most impactful. Dan Koe

It is a simple two-step process: Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins. James Clear (Atomic Habits)

Helpful Habits Quotes

Your new life will cost you your old habits. Pay the price gladly. James Clear

I wondered: How can I make this habit easier? BJ Fogg

The most reliable way to change your life is by not changing your entire life. If you try to change everything all at once, you will quickly find yourself pulled back into the same patterns as before. But if you merely focus on changing one specific habit and work on it until it becomes part of your normal day, you will find your life changes naturally as a side effect. Improve the whole by mastering one thing. James Clear

Your environment dictates your choices. Change your surroundings before trying to change your habits. The right environment makes the right decisions easy, while the wrong one makes them nearly impossible. Justin Welsh

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit. BJ Fogg

You can disrupt a behavior you don’t want by removing the prompt. This isn’t always easy, but removing the prompt is your best first move to stop a behavior from happening. BJ Fogg (Tiny Habits)

Without being aware, it’s not possible to really live in a free way. Otherwise we are just in habitual reaction to whatever is arising. Jack Kornfield

The fastest path to making better choices is to think about your ideal life before every single decision you make until it becomes a habit. Dan Koe

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit. BJ Fogg (Tiny Habits)

In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things. Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward. BJ Fogg (Tiny Habits)

If you’re having trouble sticking to a new habit, try a smaller version until it becomes automatic. Do less than you’re capable of, but do it more consistently than you have before. James Clear

We’re not aiming for perfection here, only consistency. Keeping the habit alive means keeping it rooted in your routine no matter how tiny it is. BJ Fogg

Your habits are often a byproduct of convenience. Humans are wired to seek the path of least resistance, which means the most convenient option is often the one that wins. Make good choices more convenient and bad choices less so. Behavior will improve naturally. James Clear

The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration. Cal Newport

There are only three things we can do that will create lasting change: Have an epiphany, change our environment, or change our habits in tiny ways. BJ Fogg

One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top. James Clear

Make it easy to do what matters and hard to do what doesn’t. James Clear

When choosing a new habit many people seem to ask themselves, “What can I do on my best days?” The trick is to ask, “What can I stick to even on my worst days?” Start small. Master the art of showing up. Scale up when you have the time, energy, and interest. James Clear

Before you try to increase your willpower, try to decrease the friction in your environment. James Clear

A quick and easy tip for building habits that last: Pick a standard time and place to do it. It’s easier to wake up knowing “I exercise at 4pm” than to decide each time when to fit a habit into your day. If it’s already decided, all you need to do is show up. James Clear

Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action. James Clear

Habit stacking allows you to create a set of simple rules that guide your future behaviour. James Clear

Does this habit still serve me or am I blindly following an old routine? James Clear

Deep Habits Quotes

You can overcome a lot of bad habits if you’re willing to be bored. James Pierce

The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. James Clear

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Mark Twain

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. James Clear

When you’re bored, pick up a book instead of your phone and see where that simple habit shift it takes you. Dan Koe

You aren’t afraid of failure. You are afraid of replacing the mediocre habits and routines that your brain loves so much. Dan Koe

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy. James Clear

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. Shunryu Suzuki (Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind)

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain

Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people’s actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety. Jim Loehr

A habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. James Clear

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question. Samuel Butler (Darwin Among The Machines, 1863)

Many of us have become habitual overthinkers because it gives us the illusion that we’re doing something about the problem we’re overthinking about. Nick Trenton (Stop Overthinking)

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Marcel Proust

If we’re not in control of our emotions, our urges, our habits, who is? Ryan Holiday

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Aldous Huxley

Look at your habits that constitute it: are they the product of innumerable little cowardices and lazinesses or your courage and inventive reason? Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s important to strive to do good, and even more important to strive to abstain from evil. Abstention should be a habit in your life; it should support you in your virtues. For he who is resolute in goodness, there is nothing that he could not overcome. Lao Tzu

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. Tyron Edwards

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. Pico Iyer

Habits Quotes About Success

Success is the product of daily habits — not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. James Clear

Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit. Robert Greene

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own. Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Make these habits. Say no to everything else. Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media. Relax. Victory is assured. Naval Ravikant

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou

Watch someone’s daily habits today and you will understand what their future looks like. Anthony Pompliano

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier

Unlearning past habits that no longer serve you is self-care. Chris Ruden

Build good habits and consistency will do the rest of the work. Anthony Pompliano

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman

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 habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi

Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn’t matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Paul Graham

“Doing hard things” is a habit that must be practiced, or, like all habits, it will be lost. Mark Manson

At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with. Naval Ravikant

Success leaves clues, but they’re rarely in inspirational quotes… They’re in the unsexy habits successful people maintain when motivation dies. Dan Martell

You will never change your life until you change the habits you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. Darren Hardy

The most powerful habit you can adopt: Using the first hour of your day to build, write, or produce something of value. Dan Koe

Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard. James Clear

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become. Bruce Lee

Exercise first thing in the morning before your brain knows what it’s doing. Dan Go

With the Tiny Habits method, you focus on small actions that you can do in less than thirty seconds. BJ Fogg (Tiny Habits)

Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life. James Clear

Conclusion

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden

Key Takeaways

To live a good life, you must develop good habits.

Make it a non-negotiable with yourself.

Here’s my personal top 7:

• Movement/exercise. I move every day. The minimum I do is walking for 15 minutes. But often, it’s running or cycling or lifting weights or just playing with my kids at the park.
• Sleep. I have regular sleeping habits: 23h30 = bed. I wake up at 7. Room = dark and cold. No electronics. I avoid bright light and stimulation in the evening.
• Meditation. I’ve been meditating since 2015. And it changed my life. Most of the time it’s in the morning, and/or in the evening. How? I sit on a comfortable chair. I close my eyes. I try to be 100% in the moment for 20 minutes. That’s it.
• Social connection. I intentionally spend time with the people I love daily. Based on this long Harvard study, it’s THE most important habits to live a happy life.
• Learning/creating. I try to avoid consuming too much (social media, news, movies, etc.). And try to create and learn something every day.
• Healthy nutrition. Super simple: lots of vegetables and fruits, low junk food, quality proteins, hydration, fibers, Omega 3, creatine, olive oil, ginger tea, chia seeds, almonds, walnuts.
• Outdoors. I spend at least 15 minutes outside each morning. Watch this clip by Andrew Huberman.

Further Readings

• Topic: Motivation
• 81 Motivational Quotes For Students To Study Hard
• 201 Steve Jobs Quotes On Life, Business, Innovation
• 80 Elon Musk Quotes (On Success, Education, Humanity)
• 100 Cal Newport Quotes (On Social Media, Deep Work, Solitude)
• 60 Work Ethic Quotes To Keep You Driven and Focused
• 80 Procrastination Quotes (For Increased Productivity)

I hope you enjoyed these inspiring quotes about habits. If you did, please share them with a friend today!

Do you have good habits? What’s your favorite quote about habits? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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