Quotes of Habit - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ How use doth breed a habit in a man! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth. ”

- George Crabbe

“ The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”

- Merrill Markoe

“ Successful people are simply those with success habits. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. ”

- Frances E. Willard

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course… because habit is an easy place to hide. ”

- Tom Rusk

“ You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing. ”

- Paul R. Scheele

“ Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ”

- Mary Martin

“ Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. ”

- Richard Whately

“ Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Habit is a form of exercise. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Habit is a shackle for the free. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ 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

“ Habits change into character. ”

- Ovid

“ In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Make good habits and they will make you. ”

- Parks Cousins

“ One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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