The 25 Best Quotes About Habits

I’ve collected thousands of quotes over the past 10+ years. Here are the best ones I’ve found about building habits.

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Looking for inspiration to build a new habit this year?

Here are some of the quotes that can inspire you to be your best:

1. “Commit to your habits to make them rituals. If it’s not important, never do it. If it’s important, do it every day.” -Derek Sivers
2. “Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a process.” -Shane Parrish
3. “Almost every result you get is a lagging measure of the habits that precede them. So, your physical fitness is a lagging measure of your training habits. Your bank account is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your productivity is a lagging measure of your prioritization habits.” -James Clear
4. “Routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard.” -Angela Duckworth
5. “Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)” -Austin Kleon
6. “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” -Gustave Flaubert
7. “We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can…The more of the details of our…