Help?

Lately I feel like my hands r sooo bare, so I've decided to grow my nails, but, unlike most people, I usually don't sit still in one spot and im always entrusted with anything "manual" related around the house, just like yesterday where I've managed to break all of my nails on my right hand while putting together my sister's new mirror not to mention me having a bad habit of biting them. I've decided to only grow the ones on my left hand because I don't use it as a much as my right, but I'm still finding half of them chipped or broken off so idk what to do? Any way to prevent this? Excluding just buying press on nails cz that defeats the whole point ig