Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. – Maria De Beausacq
Habit is a great deadener. – Samuel Beckett
Habit is a shackle for the free. – Ambrose Bierce
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. – Horace Bushnell
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. – Dale Carnegie
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. – Chaucer
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. – Agatha Christie
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. – E. M. Cioran
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched. – Jo Coudert
Make good habits and they will make you. – Parks Cousins
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: Ive done it from my youth. – George Crabbe
Habits are safer than rules; you dont have to watch them. And you dont have to keep them either. They keep you. – Frank Crane
