Quotes About Habits

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 long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. – Desiderius Erasmus

A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them. – Frank A. Clark

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. – Alphonsus Liguori

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. – Mickey Mantle

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

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

A bad habit never disappears miraculously. It’s an undo-it-yourself project.  – Abigail Van Buren

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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. – Henry Van Dyke

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

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed? – Marilyn vos Savant

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don’t get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school. – Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

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

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. – Leo Aikman

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” – Author Unknown