Quotes on habits
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.
James, William
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
Gurdjieff, Georges
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Ryun, Jim
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Proverb, Spanish
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine, St.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Mann, Horace
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
Proverb, Yiddish
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Aikman, Leo
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Johnson, Samuel
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
Confucius
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Twain, Mark
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.
Crane, Frank