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Saint Aurelius Augustine (top)
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- Saint Aurelius Augustine


Warren Buffet (top)
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffet


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


Confucius (top)
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
- Confucius


Frank Crane (top)
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


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (top)
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


William James (top)
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


Samuel Johnson (top)
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson


Horace Mann (top)
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- Horace Mann


William Somerset Maugham (top)
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
- William Somerset Maugham


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (top)
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 Wilhelm Nietzsche


Marcel Proust (top)
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- Marcel Proust


Spanish Proverb (top)
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
- Spanish Proverb


Yiddish Proverb (top)
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
- Yiddish Proverb


Mark Twain (top)
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
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


Miguel de Unamuno (top)
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
- Miguel de Unamuno
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- Miguel de Unamuno