Quotes About Habits
The best way to break a habit is to drop it.
- Leo Aikman
Habit Quotes
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, Absalom and Achitophel
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
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. - Spanish Proverb
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.
- Hannah More Quote
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. - Miguel de Unamuno Quote
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. - Goethe Quote
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 Quote
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become JUST by doing JUST acts, TEMPERATE by doing TEMPERATE acts, BRAVE by doing BRAVE acts. - Aristotle Quote
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. - Leo Aikman Quote
