A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
(Mark Twain)

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
(Og Mandino)

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
(Aristotle)

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
(Grenville Kleiser)

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
(Jim Rohn)

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
(Drew Barrymore)

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
(Brian Tracy)

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
(Warren Buffet)

"When your hobbies get in the way of your work--that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves ... well ..."
(Steve Martin)

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
(Norman Vincent Peale)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
(Aristotle)

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do
(Albert Gray)