- The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson
- To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. – Maxwell Maltz
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. – St. Augustine
- We become what we repeatedly do. – Sean Covey
- A habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. – Frank A. Clark
- A bad habit never disappears miraculously. It’s an undo-it-yourself project. – Abigail Van Buren
- Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. – Twyla Tharp
- Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. – Marie Dubsky
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
- Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. – Unknown
- If it weren’t for my bad habits, I’d be an idle fellow! – David J. Beard
- Habits are the very dickens to change. – Arnold Bennett
- Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. – Jules Renard
- A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. – Stephen King
- The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. – Feodor Dostoevski
- Habit might be described as a kind of moral friction, as something not allowing easy passage to the mind, but rather so binding it to things that to work loose from them is difficult. – Georg Lichtenberg
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle
- A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. – Desiderius Erasmus
- 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 easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. – Unkown
- No monarch is so well obeyed as that whose name is Habit. – James Lendall Basford
- Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. – Horace Bushnell
- Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. – Mary Martin
- 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
- Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
- 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
- Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit. – Natalie Massenet
- In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. – Confucius
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A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard. – Shannon Sharpe
- Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. – Mark Twain
- If you don’t watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes. – Robert Brault
- The strongest thing in the world is a bad habit. – Terri Guillemets
- To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno
- Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. – Spanish Saying
- The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. – Leo Aikman
- Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. – Georges Gurdjieff
- To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint. – Mark Twain
- The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. – Albert Camus
- Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham
- If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. – Andre Maurois
- There are things you’ve done that come back to haunt you and things that haunt you that you’re still doing. – Robert Brault
- 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