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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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 daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.” -William James
8. “Decide what you want or ought to do with the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.” -W.H. Auden
9. “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” -Jerzy Gregorek
10. “One of the best rules I’ve heard as a writer is that the way to write a book is by producing ‘two crappy pages a day.’” -Ryan Holiday
11. “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.” -Octavia Butler
12. “People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” -F.M. Alexander
13. “People don’t reach their potential on accident. The secret to success can be…