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| The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~ Mark Twain |
| A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them. ~ Frank A. Clark |
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
~ John Dryden, |
| Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryun |
| Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~ Yiddish Proverb |
| The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~ Somerset Maugham |
| Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~ St. Augustine |
| The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~ Feodor Dostoevski |
| Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, |
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| Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~ Spanish Proverb |
| The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. ~ Doug Henning |
| Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~ Marcel Proust |
| The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ~ Eng’s Principle |
| The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, |
| Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~ Frank Crane |
| Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~ William James, |
| In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~ Confucius, |
Habit with him was all the test of truth;
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.
~ George Crabbe, |
| Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~ Horace Mann |
| Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. ~ Mark Twain, |
Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.
~ Hannah More |
| To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, |
| Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~ Goethe |
| The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~ Leo Aikman |
| Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. ~ Georges Gurdjieff |