Habits Quotes
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
Pursuits become habits.
- Ovidius Naso
Habit had made the custom.
- Ovid
Habit is overcome by habit.
- Joseph Kaines
Sow an action, reap a habit.
- Hannah More
Habit is stronger than nature.
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Nothing is stronger than habit.
- Ovid
Old habits are strong and jealous.
- Dorothea Brande
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
- William Shakespeare
A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
- John Fletcher
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
- Julie Henderson
Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
- Cicero
Never permit failure to become a habit.
- William Frederick
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
- Publilius Syrus
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
- Spanish Proverb
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
- Caius Tranquillus
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
- John Irving
Habits form character and character is destiny.
- Joseph Kaines
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- St. Augustine
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
- Leo Aikman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
- Lillian Hellman
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
- Samuel Johnson
Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.
- William James
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
- Mark Twain
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
- Terence
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
- Nathaniel Emmons
Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
- Confucius
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
- Desiderius Gerhard
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
- Hannah More
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
- Aldous Huxley
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
- Marcus Fabius
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
- Marcel Proust
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Ovid
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
- James A. Baldwin
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
- Benjamin Franklin


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