“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
“Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.”
“Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.”
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.”
“Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.”
“Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.”
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
“The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.”
“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”
“To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.”
“The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.”
“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.”
“The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.”
“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.”
“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”
“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.”
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.”
“The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.”
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”