Quotes about Habit

“Laws are never as effective as habits.”

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel 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.”

“Habit is second nature.”

“Habit is ten times nature.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

“Habit is a form of exercise”

“Habits change into character.”

“Habit is stronger than reason.”

“Habit is a shackle for the free.”

“How use doth breed a habit in man!”

“As a twig is bent the tree inclines.”

“Never permit failure to become a habit.”

“Make good habits and they will make you.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.”

“Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.”

“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”

“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”

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

“The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.”

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

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”