In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims,
because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct.
To reform one's maxims is nothing:
it is but to change the title of the book.
To learn new habits is everything,
for it is to reach the substance of life.
Life is but a tissue of habits.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
We first make our habits,
then our habits make us.
-John Dryden
Habit is, as it were,
a second nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To fall into a habit
is to begin to cease to be.
-Miguel de Unamuno
Habit is the will to begin to repeat oneself.
-Gaston Bachelard
Habit, if not resisted,
soon becomes necessity.
-Saint Augustine
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
as brooks make rivers,
rivers turn to seas.
-John Dryden
Habits are first cobwebs,
the cables.
-Spanish Proverb
Habit is a cable;
we weave a thread of it each day,
and at last we cannot break it.
-Horace Mann
Old habits have deep roots.
-Norwegian Proverb
The gnarled fidelity
of an old habit
-Rainer Maria Rilke
A habit is a shirt made of iron.
-Czech Proverb
Habit with its iron sinews,
clasps us and leads us day by day.
-Alphonse de Lamartine
Rigid, the skeleton of habit
upholds the whole frame.
-Virginia Woolf
Habit is a full-grown mountain,
hard to get over or to pull down.
-Congolian Proverb
The fixity of a habit
is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
-Marcel Proust
Old habits die hard.
-Danish Proverb
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
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
Bad habits are your worst enemies;
against your will they will do the things
that hurt you the most.
-Yogananda
Habit is altogether
too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
Habit is either
the best of servants
or the worst of masters.
-Nathaniel Emmons
A habit is the result
of concentration of the mind.
-Yogananda
Every habit forms a rhythm.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hard to get into the habit of yourself,
Hard to get out of the habit of yourself.
-Gunnar Ekelof
Good habits and bad habits
both take time to acquire force.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Habit is overcome by habit.
-Thomas a Kempis
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
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it;
and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it,
but accustom yourself to something else.
-Epictetus
The physical is the slave of certain forces which create a habit
and drive it thought the mechanical power of the habit.
So long as the mind gives consent, you do not notice the slavery;
but if the mind withdraws its consent, then you feel the servitude,
you feel a force pushing you in spite of the mind's will.
It is very obstinate and repeats itself till the habit,
the inner habit revealing itself in the outward act, is broken.
It is like a machine which once set in motion repeats the same movements.
A quiet persistent aspiration will bring you to the point
where the habit breaks and you are free.
-M. P. Pandit
and drive it thought the mechanical power of the habit.
So long as the mind gives consent, you do not notice the slavery;
but if the mind withdraws its consent, then you feel the servitude,
you feel a force pushing you in spite of the mind's will.
It is very obstinate and repeats itself till the habit,
the inner habit revealing itself in the outward act, is broken.
It is like a machine which once set in motion repeats the same movements.
A quiet persistent aspiration will bring you to the point
where the habit breaks and you are free.
-M. P. Pandit
Good habits are worth
being fanatical about.
-John Irving
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued,
that at last becomes man himself.
-Evenus
