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
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
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 satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
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, The Principles of Psychology
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. – Leo Aikman
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. – Chinese Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. – Anon.
Good habits result from resisting temptation. – Proverb
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 J. Adler
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle
