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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
-Chinese Proverb
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Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
-Anon.
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
-Proverb
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
-Mortimer J. Adler
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
-Aristotle
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
-Marcus Aurelius
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
-Hosea Ballou
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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
-Maria De Beausacq
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Habit is a great deadener.
-Samuel Beckett
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Never permit failure to become a habit.
-William Frederick Book
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
-Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
-Horace Bushnell
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
-Dale Carnegie
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
-Chaucer
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
-Agatha Christie
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
-E. M. Cioran
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
-Jean Cocteau
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The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
-Jo Coudert
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
-Norman Cousins
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Make good habits and they will make you.
-Parks Cousins
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Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
-George Crabbe
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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
Essays
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
-John Dewey
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Books about Habits
