Back in the day, I was the worst at keeping a routine. It’s not like I didn’t try a million times to keep myself in check and follow a rigid schedule – it just didn’t do it for me.
And don’t get me started on trying to build new habits. I was always the “Monday person” because I swore my life would completely change when Monday rolled around – eating healthier, working out, waking up earlier, not using social media at work, yadda, yadda, yadda – you know the drill.
At some point, however, I realized – it’s all futile. No matter how hard I try, I would never achieve lasting success with my Monday mentality. While my intentions were good, my mentality about the issue was all wrong. Let me explain why…
Change isn’t something that magically happens to oneself. We need to actively put in the effort if we want to achieve it.
When you want something to turn into a habit, you need to push your brain to use power to accept it as such. And no, this doesn’t happen only on Mondays. It happens every day of the week if you are persistent.
My advice to you? Try to turn every day into a Monday. Don’t wait for an entire week to start changing. If you want to change, you should begin at this very minute.
Here are some quotes about routines and habits that can give you more insights into sticking to a better version of yourself. Which habit are you trying to grow out of?
Quotes About Routines and Habits
1. “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”― Albert Camus
2. “A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”― Stephen King
3. “The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”― Eckhart Tolle
4. “Change might not be fast, and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”― Charles Duhigg
5. “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”― Samuel Johnson
6. “You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”― Julien Smith
7. “We become what we repeatedly do.”― Sean Covey
8. “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.”― Marcia Carrington
9. “It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”― Lewis Carroll
10. “A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”― Erasmus
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11. “If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.”― Charles Duhigg
12. “Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”― Mark Twain
13. “There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”― William James
14. “The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits, and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.”― Henry Hazlitt
15. “Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”― Gordon Parks
16. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”― Jim Ryun
17. “The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.”― Shannon L. Alder
18. “If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. ”― Sri S. Satchidananda
19. “Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”― John Irving
20. “Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.”― Julien Smith
21. “Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”― Therese Fowler
22. “H is for Habit; winners make a habit of doing the things losers don’t want to do.”― Lucas Remmerswaal
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23. “If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”― Bryant McGill
24. “She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”― Ann Brashares
25. “Just do it! First, you make your habits; then your habits make you!”― Lucas Remmerswaal
26. “Sometimes, I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.”― Nicole Krauss
27. “Assiduity, it means to sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.”― Lucas Remmerswaal
28. “Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”― Neeraj Agnihotri
29. “Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves”― Sunday Adelaja
30. “Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”― Mortimer Adler
31. “The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”― Marcel Proust
32. “If we react to disruptions fearfully or habitually or even non-strategically, then it’s almost impossible to achieve holistic wealth.”― Keisha Blair
33. “Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”― Harley King
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34. “Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”― Elizabeth George
35. “If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face; then a helping hand is in order.”― Kenneth Schwarz
36. “Take note of Who’s Who and What’s What in your life. The people, the habits, the diet, the routines… Are they driving you forward or crazy?”― Steve Maraboli
37. “Your habits, be they good or bad, were created by you, and as we journey along this narrow way, we have an obligation to form new Holy habits and to stop the practice of bad and unholy habits.”― John M. Sheehan
38. “Your habits and patterns determine the direction of your life. Develop routines and behaviors that create success. Remove any limitations, maximize your potential and focus on what matters most.”― Mlungisi Simelane
39. “Change your attitude, behavior, habits, words to change your world and future. – Sachin Ramdas Bharatiya
40. “When you know the value of your life, you stop interfering in other people’s lives even when it’s trending.”― Shariq Latif
41. “Be ready to do anything in life without shame and with interest; you’ll be capable of anything .”― Sonal Takalkar
42. “Habits to us is as recipes are to food. If you’re not enjoying your life, find new recipes.”― Sotero M Lopez II
43. “Action is one; two is a coincidence, three of them forms a trend and suggests a pattern.”― Thomas Vato
44. “In ordinary terms, a “habit” is generally defined as a behavior that’s recurrent, is cued by a specific context, often happens without much awareness or conscious intent, and is acquired through frequent repetition.”― Gretchen Rubin
45. “Surprisingly, stress doesn’t necessarily make us likely to indulge in bad habits; when we’re anxious or tired, we fall back on our habits, whether bad or good.”― Gretchen Rubin
Last Quotes About Habits and Routines To Inspire Change
46. “Habits to us is as recipes are to food. If you don’t like the way your life tastes, stop the madness. Burn all your recipes and find new ones.”― Sotero M Lopez II
47. “Learning about your learning style can be very helpful. It can give you insight into how you approach classes and master the information and knowledge you need for tests and writing papers. Therefore all learners should try to discover their learning style strengths and understand how they can use those strengths to improve their study skills.”― Christine Reidhead, How to Improve Study Habits
48. “Consistency in little will pay off on big days.”― Adeyemi Taiwo Eunice
49. “Over time marked with periodic starvation, and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence of hope and organize the contemptuous sneer of discontentment.”― Kilroy J. Oldster
50. “If you tend to act on your emotions, you are always doing what everybody generally does—letting one’s emotions determine who they are. It’s one habit that a leader shouldn’t cultivate.”― Picazo Basha
51. “Retailing is the art of making habits and the business of maintaining habits.”― Sijin Bt
52. “Success in spiritual life is measured not by spectacular events but by daily devotion.”― Deng Ming-Dao
53. “A habit must be established before it can be improved. If you can’t learn the basic skill of showing up, then you have little hope of mastering the finer details. Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.”― James Clear
54. “Keep your habits right, keep your future bright.”― Dax Bamania
55. “Ask yourself if you would want your children to follow the same habits that you are currently following. If the answer is “no”, simply change your habit.”― Venugopala CV
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