Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Spanish Proverb

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
Eng’s Principle

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

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
John Irving

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, Analects

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
Charles Farrar Browne

Habits change into character.
Ovid

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton

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 in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
Mariel Hemingway

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
Jose Saramago

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon
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

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo Aikman

A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Clark

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny Craig

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old – old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens

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

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
Lee Strasberg

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do.
Albert Gray

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence

And I think of that again as I’ve written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that – you know, I come from a generation that wasn’t – didn’t have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason Cooley

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
Charles C. Noble

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
Yiddish Proverb